CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
Graduate Study
CHAPTER 2
Admission and
Registration
CHAPTER 3
Degree
Requirements
CHAPTER 4
Fields
of Study
CHAPTER 5
Members of
Graduate Studies
Committees
APPENDIX
Course
Abbreviations
English
Degrees Offered
Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
Facilities for Graduate Work
Facilities for graduate work include an excellent general library system and a world-renowned research library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The Ransom Center provides materials for critical, textual, and bibliographical studies, with its extensive holdings in earlier British literature (including the Pforzheimer Collection), modern British and American Literature, theatre arts, photography, and other significant subjects for literary and cultural research. The Benson Latin American Collection is one of many campus resources for advanced work in non-European literature and language. The Division of Rhetoric and Composition offers rich opportunities for teaching and study; and the Computer Writing and Research Laboratory enjoys a national reputation for investigating the intersections among technology, language, and literature.
Areas of Study
Courses are offered in English and American literature; ethnic and Third World literatures; criticism; folklore, popular culture, and cultural studies; language and linguistics; bibliography and textual criticism; women, gender, and literature; English and computers; rhetoric; and creative writing.
Graduate Studies Committee
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2000-2001.
| Michael W. Adams
James B. Ayres Jeffrey Barnouw Phillip Barrish Sabrina B. Barton Lance Bertelsen Mary E. Blockley Brian A. Bremen Joanna Brooks Douglas S. Bruster Jerome F. A. Bump Elizabeth Butler Cullingford Thomas Cable Mia E. Carter Evan B. Carton Larry D. Carver Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski Davida H. Charney Andrew Cooper Ann Luja Cvetkovich Rosa A. Eberly Lester L. Faigley Norman Kittrell Farmer Jr. John P. Farrell Linda Ferreira-Buckley Betty Sue Flowers Alan W. Friedman Kate Frost Laura Furman James D. Garrison Zulfikar Ghose Don Graham Ian F. Hancock Barbara J. Harlow Elizabeth Harris Elizabeth A. Hedrick Kurt Heinzelman Susan Heinzelman Geraldine Heng Jacqueline M. Henkel Tony Hilfer R. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Ernest N. Kaulbach Martin W. Kevorkian Sara E. Kimball Judith Kroll | Joseph E. Kruppa
Peter N. La Salle R. Val LeClercq Wayne Lesser Jose E. Limon Bernth O. Lindfors James N. Loehlin Carol Hanbery MacKay James L. Magnuson Eric S. Mallin Joseph F. Malof Khaled A. Mattawa Maurine D. McElroy Joseph J. Moldenhauer Lisa L. Moore Neil R. Nehring Adam Zachary Newton Wayne A. Rebhorn Roger deV. Renwick Elizabeth Merle Richmond-Garza Patricia Roberts-Miller Charles R. Rossman John P. Rumrich John J. Ruszkiewicz Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez Elizabeth Scala William J. Scheick Darieck Scott Joseph Evans Slate John M. Slatin Thomas F. Staley William Merrell Stott Margaret A. Syverson John Ralston Trimble Robert Gray Twombly Gary N. Underwood John W. Velz Warwick P. Wadlington Max R. Westbrook David Anthony Wevill Frank Whigham Thomas Bacon Whitbread Michael B. Winship Helena Woodard Marjorie Curry Woods |
Degree Requirements
Master of Arts
A total of thirty-three semester hours of work is required, of which at least six must be in a related field outside the Department of English. The department does not admit literature students for a terminal master's degree; however, students in the creative writing program receive the Master of Arts degree upon completion of their course of work. Details are available from the graduate adviser.
As preparation for the English graduate program, a strong undergraduate background in British and American literature and language is desirable, as well as advanced coursework in related fields.
Doctor of Philosophy
To enter the doctoral degree program, all master's-level students must pass the qualifying examination. With the consent of the graduate adviser, students who enter the program with a Master of Arts degree from another university may be eligible for exemption from the examination. Students who began their graduate work at the University must pass the examination in the spring semester of the second year of graduate study.
After passing the qualifying examination, the student completes from twenty-four to thirty-three semester hours of additional coursework; specific requirements are available from the graduate adviser. Students who began graduate study at another institution may petition the graduate adviser to transfer applicable credit from the other school. Students seek admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree after completing their coursework, receiving approval of the dissertation prospectus, and passing the doctoral three-area examination.
For More Information
Campus address: Calhoun Hall (CAL) 210, phone (512) 471-5132 or (512) 475-6356; campus mail code: B5000
Mailing address: Graduate Program, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1164
E-mail: gradeng@uts.cc.utexas.edu
URL: http://www.en.utexas.edu/grad/
Graduate Catalog
Contents
Chapter 1 - Graduate Study
Chapter 2 - Admission and Registration
Chapter 3 - Degree Requirements
Chapter 4 - Fields of Study
Chapter 5 - Members of Graduate Studies Committees
Appendix - Course Abbreviations
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