Graduate
Applicants:
Students admitted
to graduate study in the Department of English take courses
leading to the Master of Arts in English. In what is normally
a thirty-hour program, all students take at least fifteen hours
in literature. The Department offers four concentration areas
as outlined below:
* Concentration in Traditional Literary Study
Students in this concentration take an additional 15 hours of literature
coursework.
* Concentration in Poetry and Poetics
Students pursue a focused study of poetry and poetics as part
of their overall preparation in British and American literature.
* Concentration
in Creative Writing
Students take an equal number of courses in literature and in
writing.
* Concentration
in Women's Studies
Students pursue an interest in women's literature as a substantial
part of their general preparation in British and American literature. This
is an interdisciplinary concentration wherein students will work with women's
studies faculty from other departments within the university.
* Concentration in Composition
Students take additional courses exploring current
theories about writing, the teaching of writing, and the contexts
of writing - including linguistics, critical theory, and discourse
analysis.
Applicants
Seeking Degrees Off-Campus:
There are a
number of courses offered each summer which allow students
with limited access to the UMaine campus during the regular
school year the chance to complete a degree over the course
of several summers.
For more information on this option, click here.
Additionally,
the Continuing Education Division offers Distance Education
classes each semester available through compressed video
or ITV. These courses allow students living anywhere in Maine
the opportunity to take courses from UMaine faculty.
For
a listing of current CED courses, please click here.
For information on university admission requirements,
please refer to the Graduate School page at: www.umaine.edu/graduate
or by mail at:
The Graduate School
University of Maine
5782 Winslow Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5782
Telephone: 207 581-3218
FAX: 207 581-3232
Email: graduate@maine.edu
If you would like to contact the Graduate Coordinator
for program information or financial aid questions specific to
The English Department:
E-mail us at: englishgradstudies@umit.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-3835
Write to:
Graduate Program Information
University of Maine
5725 Neville Hall
Rm. 304
Orono, ME 04469
