Catalog Year: 2023-2024
Banner Code: LA-MA-ENGL-FLKS
The Master of Arts in English at Mason offers students the opportunity to enhance their skills of reading, writing, research and teaching with courses that encompass the wide range of contemporary English studies. Students can work in and across concentrations in literature, professional writing, rhetoric, cultural studies, film, folklore, linguistics, and the teaching of writing and literature. It offers the MA in field-specific concentrations as well as the opportunity to combine a concentration in one field with a certificate from another one. Many students use the MA for professional enhancement, or as an entry into teaching, professional writing, or doctoral study.
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Total credits: 30
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Students pursuing this degree must successfully complete 30 credits in one concentration.
| Code | Title | Credits |
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| Core Courses | ||
| FOLK 501 | Advanced Introduction to Folklore and Folklife | 3 |
| FOLK 510 | Folklore and Ethnographic Research Methods | 3 |
| FOLK 601 | Folklore Theory and History | 3 |
| Required Courses | ||
| FOLK 550 | Topics in Public and Applied Folklore | 3 |
| FOLK 560 | Topics in Genre and Theory | 3 |
| FOLK 570 | Topics in Regional Folklore Studies | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Choose 6 credits from the following. These topics courses can be repeated for credit when topic differs from the topic taken to meet the required course requirement above. | 6 | |
| Topics in Public and Applied Folklore | ||
| Topics in Genre and Theory | ||
| Topics in Regional Folklore Studies | ||
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Courses outside of FOLK when topic is related and with approval of graduate director.
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| Experiential Learning | ||
| FOLK 690 | Field School for Cultural Documentation | 3 |
| or FOLK 699 | Internship | |
| Capstone | ||
| FOLK 790 | Project | 3 |
| or FOLK 799 | Thesis | |
| Total Credits | 30 | |