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MA - English
All candidates for the Master of Arts degree in English, which is designed for students who have completed an undergraduate major in English or its equivalent, are required to:
- Complete an approved 30-unit program with a grade point average of 3.0 or better. At least 21 of these units must be graduate-level (i.e., 200-numbered) courses. Any undergraduate course work to be applied to the MA program must be approved in advance by the graduate advisor.
- Demonstrate competency in written English. Please refer to the SJSU catalog section titled “Competency in Written English” for details. For graduate courses that meet the competency in written English requirement, please refer to the Graduate Studies and Research website at www.sjsu.edu/gradstudies.
- Demonstrate reading proficiency in a second language by passing the departmental language examination. (This requirement is waived for students who have, within five years of achieving candidacy, earned a grade of at least "B" in the fourth semester of an acceptable foreign language course. It is also waived for students whose first language is not English.)
- Pass the MA comprehensive examinations.
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| Course Requirements | | | |
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| Core Course | 3 |
| ENGL 201 (to be taken as soon as possible after achieving classified standing) |
| Additional Courses | 27 |
| Additional graduate-level courses chosen with MA advisor's approval (students may elect, with approval of the English MA Committee, to write a thesis in lieu of six units of course work) |
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| Total Units: | 30 |
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