Master of Arts [M.A] [English] From Gannon University

The from Gannon University is intended to expand the student's knowledge of linguistic and critical theory, composition and rhetoric, literary history, the development of literary genres, and major and minor writers of all periods.?

Additionally, the program is designed to refine students' responses to literature and language and sharpen their critical judgment, and develop their extended knowledge and expanded abilities into more effective writing, speaking, and teaching.?

Master of Arts Program

Thirty graduate hours are required. Candidates may elect to take all thirty graduate hours within the English department, or they may elect to take six hours of other graduate level courses approved by the Graduate English Program Director.??

Students are required to take nine graduate hours in English and American literature and nine graduate hours in language studies courses. Of the graduate hours required in English and American literature, three must be in British literature before 1700 (excluding Shakespeare), three in British literature between 1700 and the present, and three in American literature. Of the graduate hours required in language studies, three must be in theory, three in writing, and three in linguistics.?