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On This Page:

  • Overview
  • Program Learning Outcomes
  • Concentrations
  • FAQs

Overview

We offer three programs of Graduate study in the Department of English: an MA in Literature, Language, and Theory; an MA in English for Adolescence Education; and an MFA in Creative Writing. Students who pursue an English Masters degree at Hunter come from diverse backgrounds and bring to the department a variety of strengths, experiences, and interests. Our Masters curriculums reflect and develop the intellectual and practical goals of our students and tap into faculty areas of expertise and the resources provided by the culturally stimulating metropolis at our doorstep.

Department faculty members specialize in a broad spectrum of literatures, theories and critical practices, as well as in creative writing, rhetoric, pedagogy, and linguistics. They are accessible both in and out of the classroom, supporting students as they become more sophisticated readers, researchers, and writers. Those who enroll receive guidance in improving their own expertise as not just scholars and masters of their craft but also as teachers of literature and writing. While our Masters programs are enriching and often professionally rewarding as terminal degrees, they also prepare students for further graduate study.

For more detailed information, please click on the Masters program of interest above.

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Think critically and theoretically about literature across literary genres and periods
  2. Identify and incorporate theoretical and critical approaches to analysis of literature
  3. Make original arguments about literary texts supported by analysis

Concentrations

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MA in Literature, Language, and Theory
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MA in English Adolescent Education
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MFA in Creative Writing

FAQs

In order to maintain small and engaging seminars, each course caps at 15 students. A limited number of overtallies into each course may be granted by the professor and approved by the graduate advisor.

  • Students who are accepted into a graduate program and register for courses may request transfer credit for up to 6 credits taken within relevant graduate programs at regionally accredited institutions, including credits taken at Hunter College while enrolled in another degree program, whether or not a master’s degree was awarded.
  • Transfer of credit is subject to the approval of the department or graduate advisor and to the regulations of the Hunter program in which the student is enrolled. The following additional limitations apply:
  1. The course(s) for which transfer of credit is requested must have been completed within four years prior to the awarding of the Hunter graduate degree.
  2. Credits for courses in which the student earned a grade below B, or took a non-letter grade such as a pass/fail are not transferable.
  3. Courses used to satisfy entrance requirements, as well as courses used as part of a previously completed bachelor’s program, may not be transferred.
  4. Grades in courses transferred from other institutions, or from a prior master’s degree program taken at Hunter College, will not be calculated into the student’s grade point average (GPA), nor will these grades be posted on the current Hunter College record.

We only allow students to audit an MA course if they are already enrolled in the program and have received permission from both the graduate advisor and the professor of the course. Admitted graduate non-degree students may register for graduate courses upon approval from the graduate advisor. However, no more than 9 credits may be taken as a non-matriculant of the program.

The department does not require students to be registered for a specific amount of credits per semester. However, please be sure to check with the Office of Financial Aid regarding enrollment requirements for financial support.

Yes. If, however, your leave extends beyond one semester, you must apply for readmission through the Office of Graduate Admissions.

Taking demonstrably relevant courses in other departments is possible with prior approval from the graduate advisor, but courses outside the Department of English should not exceed 6 credits.

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