English
Graduate Programs
Why Study English?
Explore the vibrant and diverse world of literature, communication, writing, rhetoric, journalism, creative writing, and digital media.
Connect with the written word through UMBC’s English program. You will critically explore new ideas and points of view, strengthen your writing skills, and use what you learn outside the classroom. Choose from two tracks—Literature or Communication and Technology—and a wide variety of minors. The English Department is also affiliated with many other programs and departments, giving you the opportunity to make your degree more interdisciplinary. Master’s students can further their understanding of literature and a broad array of other texts, including digital, academic, and everyday texts, in the Master of Arts in Texts, Technologies, and Literature Program. The master’s program is great for students coming from a wide range of humanities backgrounds as well as high school teachers and those entering communications, editorial, and/or digital media professions.
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Master of Arts in Texts, Technologies, and Literature
The Master of Arts in texts, technologies, and literature provides an opportunity for students to further their understanding of literature and a broad array of other texts, including digital, academic, and those that function in everyday use, in relation to both historical and contemporary culture. It is designed to accommodate students with a variety of interests and career paths, including those who are considering an academic career in English, whether in rhetoric and composition, communication and media studies, or literature; those interested in pursuing a Ph.D.; K-12 teachers looking for advanced training; and those entering communications, editorial, and/or digital media professions. Students may specialize in the study of print-based or multi-modal texts of particular periods or genres; rhetoric, communication, and composition; or language use and production in various settings. Students in the program will explore a range of literatures in English and a variety of textual forms, media and practices in relation to their cultural contexts; develop advanced skills in reading, analyzing, and writing about texts, from the lyric poem to digital work in multimedia; and have the opportunity to study language in use in various settings, or to specialize in the study of communication or the teaching of composition.
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