English, BA with a concentration in Literature with grad track option leading to English, MA

The Department of English offers a grad-track pathway in which students complete a Bachelor’s Degree with a concentration in literature in four years, and then go on to earn a master’s degree in literature in the fifth year. This accelerated program, which is cost-effective and time-saving, is designed for exceptional, highly motivated majors who have maintained at least a 3.5 GPA. Students must apply to this program in their junior year. Admitted students will take twelve graduate hours during their senior year, which can count both toward their bachelor’s and master’s degrees, as permitted by university rules.

Admission Requirements

To be eligible for acceptance, students must have completed 75 undergraduate hours, including the following courses:

In addition to completing the required courses, students will need to submit:

One or more writing samples
A statement of purpose
A curriculum vitae or resume
Two letters of recommendation testifying to student’s ability to do graduate-level work
An application to the Toulouse Graduate School

GRE scores are not required. Students in the UNT Honors Program and students who satisfy the requirements are guaranteed admission to the program and need not provide letters of recommendation.

Program Policies

Undergraduate students who have been accepted to a grad track pathway option must complete their bachelor’s degree requirements and graduate within 12 months of the first day of the semester for which they were admitted to the accelerated program in order to continue into the graduate program.

Admitted students will take twelve graduate hours during their senior year, which will also count toward their B.A. as permitted by university rules.

Requirements

In lieu of 4 advanced undergraduate electives in the fourth year, students for the MA in literature will take 3 5000-level graduate literature classes and ENGL 5760 in their senior year. The literature classes should be chosen from the following list with an eye to fulfilling period distribution requirements for the BA and the MA. See the distribution requirements for the BA with a major in English and the MA in English.

ENGL 5000 - Old English
ENGL 5010 - Beowulf
ENGL 5020 - Chaucer: Major Works
ENGL 5030 - Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
ENGL 5100 - Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Romantic Period
ENGL 5200 - Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period
ENGL 5250 - Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Eighteenth Century
ENGL 5260 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
ENGL 5310 - Studies in Rhetorical Theory
ENGL 5320 - Studies in Composition Theory
ENGL 5400 - Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 5410 - Studies in the British Renaissance
ENGL 5490 - Studies in the Twentieth-Century British Novel
ENGL 5500 - Studies in American Literature and Culture from the Beginning to 1800
ENGL 5510 - Studies in American Literature and Culture, 1800 to 1865
ENGL 5515 - Studies in the American Renaissance
ENGL 5520 - Studies in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to 1914
ENGL 5525 - Studies in American Realism
ENGL 5530 - Studies in American Literature and Culture, 1914 to the Present
ENGL 5540 - Studies in Twentieth-Century British or Irish Literature and Culture
ENGL 5550 - Studies in the Teaching of Composition
ENGL 5560 - Studies in the Teaching of Literature
ENGL 5570 - Studies in the Teaching of the English Language
ENGL 5600 - Studies in European Literature and Culture
ENGL 5605 - Studies in the Literature and Culture of the Colonial Americas
ENGL 5610 - Studies in Early African-American Literature and Culture
ENGL 5620 - Studies in Contemporary African-American Literature and Culture
ENGL 5630 - Semiotics
ENGL 5635 - Mexican-American Literature and Theory Before 1954
ENGL 5640 - Mexican-American Literature and Theory After 1954
ENGL 5650 - United States Ethnic Literature and Culture
ENGL 5680 - Studies in Global Literature and Culture
ENGL 5700 - Classical Background of English and American Literature and Culture
ENGL 5710 - Studies in Folklore
ENGL 5720 - Literature and Science
ENGL 5730 - Literature and the Environment
ENGL 5750 - Methods of Historical Research
ENGL 5760 - Scholarly and Critical Writing
ENGL 5770 - Literary Publishing, Editing and Writing for Publication
ENGL 5800 - Studies in Literary Genres
ENGL 5810 - Survey of Critical Theory
ENGL 5890 - Studies in the American Novel, 1914 to the Present
ENGL 5900 - Special Problems
ENGL 5910 - Special Problems
ENGL 5920 - Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis
ENGL 5930 - Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis
ENGL 5950 - Master’s Thesis