田纳西大学

Tennessee’s MA program is offered in two concentrations: Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies and Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics. They both provide excellent training and a flexible curriculum. Students may specialize in anything from medieval literature to critical theory or may pursue a more general curriculum. We look for strong, thoughtful candidates who will enrich our intellectual community in a variety of ways and who will benefit from the breadth of our resources.

We have an excellent financial support, a nationally and internationally recognized faculty, and world-class research library. Travel funds for research and presentations at scholarly conferences help our students enter the profession and begin to establish themselves in their respective fields within the discipline.

The Graduate Students in English organization, field-specific reading groups, and other activities draw students together as an intellectual and social community with shared passions and aspirations. Our MA graduates go on to excellent PhD programs in English, as well as to careers in editing, publishing, technical writing, and the non-profit and private sectors.

MA in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics

The MA in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics has the following degree requirements:

1. Six hours of coursework in English at the 600 level (this may include the required RWL elective mentioned below).
   
2. Twelve additional hours of coursework in English at the 500 to 600 level, to be divided as follows:
   < >English 585.English 586.An elective course from the Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics curriculum.Any elective course in English.Two graduate English courses.
3. Six credit hours of English 500 (Thesis Hours). The thesis will analyze some aspect of writing or rhetorical theory, for which six credit hours are awarded. In addition to the project director, two other English department faculty members will supervise and approve the project.
4. Evidence of proficiency in one foreign language, to be fulfilled in one of the following ways:
   < >Completion of a second year (or demonstration of competence on a waiver or proficiency examination) of a language at the college level with a grade of C or better.Completion of French 302 or German 332 at UT with a grade of B or better.Passing UT’s doctoral PhD foreign language examination as currently administered.
   A ninety-minute oral examination. Thirty minutes of the exam will consist of questions about the thesis, and sixty minutes will consist of questions covering the texts on the MA Reading List for Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics. The reading list for this examination may be found here; hard copies of this list are available in the English Graduate Office.