英语艺术硕士论文选修课程包括以下内容：30（30）学分的课程作业，包括ENG 599（硕士学位论文研究）。MA论文建议：在完成MA课程之后，学生应在研究生院院长的咨询下，寻找一名英语系教授担任MA论文阶段的主要教授。在专业教授的指导下，学生撰写了论文的建议。一旦研究生院批准了论文提案，学生就可以开始论文本身的实质性工作。
This highly competitive program offers a low faculty/student ratio, so you'll receive personalized attention and be encouraged to publish your work and to deliver conference papers. The English Graduate Program educates students to enter a variety of professional fields. Our M.A. graduates have gone on to further graduate study and/or employment in teaching, publishing, writing, film production, medicine, business, and law. The Department of English offers a 30-credit Master of Arts program, designed to offer students the choice of a thesis or non-thesis option. As a graduate student in the M.A. program, you will work closely with our distinguished faculty of widely published, prize-winning scholars and writers, who will challenge you, encourage your interests, and support your professional goals.<br>An M.A. thesis should be an original work of scholarship articulating an argument over 17,000 to 20,000 words, including notes but not including the list of works cited. The student should plan to use the middle summer and the third semester of the program as time devoted to primary research and writing, with the aim of producing an advanced draft of the entire thesis by the beginning of the fourth semester of the program. In consultation with the major professor, the student should compose a committee during the third semester consisting of the major professor, one other English faculty member, and one faculty member from outside the English department. During the third and fourth semesters, the student enrolls in ENG 599 (Master's Thesis Research) with the committee chair. Under the guidance of the chair of this committee, the faculty members will work with the student to develop, evaluate, and approve the thesis.