Search Sites/Directory:
- Comply with UAF degree requirements.
- Pass a written comprehensive examination, based on a standardized reading list; examination to be taken no later than student's fourth semester of work. Examination will be held on the Saturday ending the fourth full week of classes.
- Pass an oral defense of thesis (Students may advance to candidacy when their advisory committee deems that they have made satisfactory progress in both academic and writing areas.).
Course Requirements (45 Credits) (See course descriptions): Complete a minimum of 45 approved credits at the 600 level, except as noted under electives, distributed as follows:
- Required courses (15 credits)
ENGL 671: Writer's Workshop (9 Credits)
ENGL 601: Bibliography, Methods, and Criticism (3 Credits)
ENGL 685: Teaching College Composition (for Teaching Assistants, or if planning to teach) (3 Credits)
Extra 600-level course if student does not take ENGL 685
- Two of the forms courses (6 credits)
ENGL 681: Forms of Poetry
ENGL 682: Forms of Fiction
ENGL 683: Forms of Drama
ENGL 684: Forms of Non-Fiction Prose
- Literature Seminars (12 credits)
Minimum of four; to be determined by student's advisory committee
- Electives (6 credits)
To be approved by student's advisory committee
- Thesis (6 credits)
ENGL 699: Thesis
Note: The English Department requires that a student receive a grade of "A" or "B" for all 600-level courses that the student wishes to apply toward this degree program.