该计划面向已获得本科学历的人，现在他们决定要在阿拉巴马州的公立学校教授英语。在该课程结束时，您将获得英语硕士学位和A类教学证书的推荐。如果您拥有英语或语言艺术的本科学位，则在进入该课程之前，您可能无需参加其他课程。否则，您需要在演讲，戏剧和/或新闻学方面拥有大学学分（至少三分之二）。您可以在第一学期以MA学生的身份参加相关课程，然后再申请教育证书。硕士课程本身包括24个英语学分，其中18个文学课时，24小时的研究生教育课程，1小时的教育实习和6小时的实习。
The English graduate degree program prepares recent graduates and working professionals for careers in research, professional writing, editing, and secondary and higher education. Our program’s diverse courses in literature and writing afford students broad cultural learning, dynamic research instruction, and job-transferable writing and media-editing skills. A master’s degree in English provides graduates credentials to teach in higher education, while many recent students have pursued PhDs at prestigious programs across the US such as Vanderbilt, California Riverside, Indiana, Washington, UMass, and Purdue.Our Technical Writing Certificate gives students credentials to pursue writing and editing jobs in a variety of industries in Huntsville’s technology and defense communities and beyond. Eighty-percent of our students in the Technical Writing Certificate program are employed either before they leave or immediately after completing their degrees.Our programs with teacher certification and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) training allow current and aspirant educators the opportunity to seek different jobs and better pay in secondary education.