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Admissions

To be admitted to graduate study in English, a student should have completed at least 18 credit hours in undergraduate English courses above the freshman level with an average grade of "B" (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) or above. International student applicants must also score at least 600 on the paper-based TOEFL examination, 250 on the computer-based TOEFL, or 100 on the internet-based TOEFL in order to be eligible for unconditional admission.

Applicants must submit graduate application, transcripts, application fee and a statement of purpose. The statement (of about 500-1000 words) should convey the applicant's previous study in the field of English, any relevant work or life experience, the applicant's philosophy of learning and reason for pursuing a Master's degree in English, and anything else that might help convey the applicant's personality, spirit, or intellectual character. Students wishing to apply for admission with a Teaching Assistantship must meet additional requirements. For more information, visit www.unomaha.edu/english/grad.php or call either 402-554-2638 or 402-554-3636.

All candidates for Master of Arts degrees with majors in English are required to take English 8010 (Introduction to Literary Research) within the first nine hours of graduate study and to complete one of the following plans of study:

Option I:

Successful completion of 24 credit hours in course work, including at least 12 hours in seminar-level courses; plus a thesis (6 credit hours) on an approved topic accepted after oral defense before a faculty committee; plus a comprehensive written examination over a designated body of literature or language prepared and judged by a faculty committee.

Option II:

Successful completion of 36 credit hours in course work, including at least 18 hours in seminar-level courses, plus a comprehensive written examination over a designated body of literature or language prepared and judged by a faculty committee. The following English seminars vary in emphasis and may be repeated for credit: English 8100, 8200, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 8900, and 9120.

Coursework Outside of English:

With approval of a student's advisor and the English Graduate Program Committee, a student may include a minor or course work from another related discipline or disciplines as part of the Plan of Study. For Option I (thesis) a minor is 9 hours; for Option II (non-thesis) a minor is 9 hours. The maximum amount of course work which may be applied from another discipline or disciplines is the same as that for a minor for Option I (9 hours) or Option II (9 hours).

Graduate Minor in English

The English department has established a graduate minor in English. Students may fulfill the requirements for the minor by successfully completing nine hours of graduate coursework in English.

Graduate Minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Designed to help students understand and appreciate a very broad and important era through the disciplines of history, English and other European languages, art history, history of music, history of science, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, and theology, there is a growing population of graduate students who have begun to request a similar option for their various master’s degree programs.

Current List of Courses Relevant to the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Medieval/Renaissance Studies

This list does not include the various departmental numbers for Graduate Directed Readings courses, even though these highly individualized reading and research classes may be applied to the requirements for the Minor. This list also does not include the various Special Topics courses in individual departments which may be taken for graduate credit.

  • ART 8726 – Women in Ancient and Medieval Art
  • ART 8776 – Early Medieval Art History
  • ART 8786 – Later Medieval Art History
  • ART 8816 – Northern European Renaissance Art History
  • ART 8836 – Italian Renaissance Art History
  • ART 8910 – Independent Study in Art History
  • MUS 8546 – Renaissance Music Literature
  • ENGL 8200 – Seminar: Middle English Literature
  • ENGL 8250 – Seminar: Chaucer
  • ENGL 8300 – Seminar: Shakespeare
  • ENGL 8316 – Middle English Literature
  • ENGL 8326 – Chaucer
  • ENGL 8336 – Sixteenth-Century Literature
  • ENGL 8346 – Shakespeare
  • ENGL 8356 – Shakespeare’s Contemporaries
  • ENGL 8366 – Seventeenth-Century Literature
  • ENGL 8400 – Seminar: English Renaissance
  • ENGL 8450 – Seminar: John Milton
  • ENGL 8626 – History of English
  • HIST 8516 – Intellectual History: Modern Europe: Renaissance to French Rev
  • HIST 8536 – The Age of the Renaissance-Reformation
  • HIST 8546 – Medieval Europe
  • HIST 8616 – Tudor and Stuart England

Certificate in Advanced Writing

The English department offers a Certificate in Advanced Writing. For specific requirements, please go to Advanced Writing Certificate.

Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

The English department offers a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). For specific requirements, please go to TESOL Certificate.

Certificate in Technical Communication

In conjunction with the School of Communication, the English department offers a Certificate in Technical Communication. For specific requirements, please go to Technical Communication Certificate.

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last updated 10/27/2011 at 2:38pm