Jan-2000Starting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Business and Management Studies
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
At the center of graduate English studies at Mason is the study of imaginative literature across time and geography. Whether the object is British, American, Anglo-phone, or even world literature in translation, the Department of English offers a broad array of graduate courses in literary history and interpretation. Just as the discipline of English has expanded beyond literature to embrace the text provided by film, new media, and folklore, it has also moved to encompass other ways of writing besides criticism, such as ethnography and professional and technical writing. It includes the study of linguistics. The MA in English concentration in professional writing and rhetoric is oriented to workplace uses of language. In addition to the training in pragmatic skills offered, the concentration is characterized by a self-reflexive attention to workplaces as institutions. Courses on research and theory in nonfiction writing complement instruction in editing, technical writing, digital publication, and other current practices to prepare students for roles as writers and editors in the private and public sectors. Instruction in research methodologies melds archival research with the most current technological advances to equip students with valuable research tools and strategies, while courses in literature, media studies, folklore, and linguistics provide insight into language and writing practices across a variety of contexts.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Business and Management Studies
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
At the center of graduate English studies at Mason is the study of imaginative literature across time and geography. Whether the object is British, American, Anglo-phone, or even world literature in translation, the Department of English offers a broad array of graduate courses in literary history and interpretation. Just as the discipline of English has expanded beyond literature to embrace the text provided by film, new media, and folklore, it has also moved to encompass other ways of writing besides criticism, such as ethnography and professional and technical writing. It includes the study of linguistics. The MA in English concentration in professional writing and rhetoric is oriented to workplace uses of language. In addition to the training in pragmatic skills offered, the concentration is characterized by a self-reflexive attention to workplaces as institutions. Courses on research and theory in nonfiction writing complement instruction in editing, technical writing, digital publication, and other current practices to prepare students for roles as writers and editors in the private and public sectors. Instruction in research methodologies melds archival research with the most current technological advances to equip students with valuable research tools and strategies, while courses in literature, media studies, folklore, and linguistics provide insight into language and writing practices across a variety of contexts.
Admission Requirements
7+
120+
88+
67+
Other English Language requirements: Students are required to have paper-based TOEFL of 570 and 230 on the computer-based TOEFL ; overall band score of 59 on the Pearson Test of English.
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