27 hours (non-thesis option) or 21 hours (thesis option):
Area courses (non-thesis option): in addition to the required courses listed above, the student who chooses to earn an MA without writing a master’s thesis or who is not given permission to write a thesis must complete 27 semester credit hours of additional course work.
Area courses (thesis option): in addition to the required courses listed above, the student who chooses to write a thesis will complete 21 hours of course work (including 6 hours of thesis). No student who has permission to write a thesis will be allowed to register for thesis hours until the foreign language requirement has been met and the MA comprehensive examination has been passed.
