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2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) [Archived Catalog]

English / Library and Information, M.A. / M.L.I.S.

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Admission Criteria
Degree Requirements

The joint master’s program in English and library and information science prepares students for careers as subject specialists in academic or public libraries. Subject specialists typically work in such areas as collection development, reference, and bibliographic instruction.

Admission Criteria

Persons applying to the joint master’s program in English and library and information science must meet the admissions requirements of both the Department of English and the School of Library and Information Science.

Degree Requirements M.A. (28 Hours) / M.L.I.S. (27 Hours)

The joint master’s program is a 55-hour program leading to an M.A. in English and a Master of Library and Information Science. It is administered by a joint committee, which recommends students for admission and approves their programs. Admission is only to the joint program. Neither degree will be awarded separately. If students wish to change from the joint program to the regular degree program in English or library and information science, they must reapply to the particular program they wish to enter.

M.A. in English (28 Hours)

1. Introductory Course (3 Hours)

ENGL 700 - Introduction to Graduate Study of English

2. One course from each of five course groups (15 Hours)

a. Medieval and Renaissance-nondramatic:

ENGL 703 - Beowulf and Old English Heroic Verse
ENGL 705 - Chaucer
ENGL 708 - Medieval Literature
ENGL 710 - The Renaissance
ENGL 715 - English Non-Dramatic Literature of the Earlier 17th Century
ENGL 716 - Milton

b. Drama:

ENGL 711 - Shakespeare I: The Comedies and Histories
ENGL 712 - Shakespeare II: The Tragedies
ENGL 713 - Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline Drama to 1642
ENGL 718 - English Literature of the Later 18th Century
ENGL 728 - British Drama From 1800 to the Present

c. British literature:

ENGL 717 - English Literature of the Restoration and Earlier 18th Century
ENGL 720 - The English Novel Before 1800
ENGL 723 - English Poetry of the Romantic Period
ENGL 724 - English Prose and Novel of the Romantic Period
ENGL 725 - The English Novel of the Victorian Period
ENGL 726 - Victorian Poetry
ENGL 727 - Victorian Prose, Excluding the Novel

d. American literature before 1900:

ENGL 742 - American Colonial and Federal Literature
ENGL 744 - American Romanticism
ENGL 745 - American Realism and Naturalism
ENGL 751 - The American Novel from the Civil War to World War I
ENGL 758 - Southern Literature Before 1900

e. 20th-century literature:

ENGL 729 - British Poetry Since 1900
ENGL 730 - Modern British Fiction
ENGL 752 - The Modern American Novel
ENGL 755 - American Drama
ENGL 760 - American Poetry Since 1900
ENGL 761 - Survey of 20th-Century British and American Poetry

3. One course in an allied field (3 Hours)

For Example:

ENGL 776 - Introduction to Bibliography and Textual Studies
ENGL 870 - Seminar in Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Editing
ENGL 871 - Seminar in Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Editing
ENGL 782 - Varieties of American English
HIST 790 - Archival Administration and Techniques

4. Two elective courses (6 Hours)

5. Thesis (1 Hour)

ENGL 799 - Thesis Preparation

6. A reading knowledge of one foreign language.

M.L.I.S. (27 Hours)

1. (18 Hours)

SLIS 701 - Introduction to Library and Information Studies
SLIS 702 - Introduction to Technical Services
SLIS 703 - Introduction to Information Sources and Services
SLIS 704 - Introduction to the Management of Libraries, School Libraries, and Information Agencies
SLIS 705 - Introduction to Research in Library and Information Science
SLIS 706 - Introduction to Information Technologies

2. Library and information science electives (9 Hours)

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