Graduate Studies in English

The masters degree with English as a major is not offered at the Rio Grande College, but graduate courses in English are offered. Students may use graduate courses offered in the college to support work toward the Master of Arts degree offered in Alpine.

Students should discuss their degree program with an Alpine representative as soon as possible. The maximum number of graduate hours that can be transferred from the Rio Grande College to the Alpine campus is:

• 12 s.c.h. in the 30 s.c.h. M.A. thesis program
• 18 s.c.h. in the 36 s.c.h. M.A. non-thesis program

Graduate Courses in English

5304 Seminar: Studies and Research Techniques in General Literature (3-0)
Topics include subjects like those named below. Literary criticism; comparative literature; mythology; the Latin American Novel.

5306 Seminar: Studies and Research Techniques in English Literature (3-0)
Topics include like those named below and are announced in the schedule of courses for the semester in which the are offered: Shakespeare; Chaucer; 19th Century Novel; 20th Century Novel.

5307 Seminar: Studies and Research Techniques in American Literature (3-0)
Topics include like those named below and are announced in the schedule of courses for the semester in which the are offered: Transcendentalism; American Romanticism; Rise of Realism; Twentieth Century Fiction.

5308 Seminar: Studies and Research Techniques in the English Language (3-0)
A study of the specific problems concerned with language, such as modern and traditional theories of grammar, dialectical studies, semantics, morphology, phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and historical development.