ENGL 500 - Introduction to Graduate Study in English

(3 credits)
This course will introduce students to the goals and research methodologies of diverse fields of English studies (literary and film studies, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, linguistics, pedagogy studies and emerging fields such as digital humanities). Readings will include scholarship about the history of English as a discipline and about contemporary critical debates in various fields. The course will expose students to diverse research methodologies and to electronic and print research tools. Students will construct an annotated bibliography and formulate a research project situated within a scholarly conversation. Required of MA and MAT candidates in English.