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Certificate in Professional Communication
Communication professionals work in rapidly changing environments that require them to update their abilities throughout their career. Both conceptual and technological issues underlie those changes. This online certificate program is designed to help those communicators remain current and competitive.
The certificate requires 15 semester hours (s.h.) of courses in the area of Technical and Professional Communication with a minimum B average in all certificate course work. Only 3 s.h. of a grade of C will count toward this certificate. Internship (ENGL 6740, 6741) and Directed Reading (ENGL 6725) courses cannot count toward the certificate. No hours in another discipline can be counted. For additional information, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies englishgrad@ecu.edu or Brent Henze.
Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures
The graduate certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures offers continuing education for post baccalaureate teachers, professionals, and potential graduate degree students in literatures from diverse ethnic and cultural groups that may have been excluded from mainstream literary studies. Course work is interdisciplinary, with emphases on genre, historical context, critical methodologies, and ethnic American and world literatures in English.
This certificate is only offered online. Completion requires 12 s.h., including ENGL 6340 and 6360 (required), and 6 s.h. to be selected from 6330, 6350, 6370, 6380, 6420, 6450, 6460, 7350 and 7365. Other special topics graduate courses in related areas may be approved on an individual basis.
Additional details can be obtained by contacting the director of graduate studies englishgrad@ecu.edu or Ellen Arnold.
Master of Arts Degree in English
Each entering student will consult with the Director of Graduate Studies, who will review curriculum requirements and options and will suggest appropriate courses related to available concentrations: English Studies, Literature, Linguistics, TESOL, Technical and Professional Communication, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, and Multicultural and Transnational literatures.
A minimum of 33 s.h. of course work is required, with a final examination on the Thesis or Comprehensive Assessment Project. Subject matter from course work may also be a part of the examination.
A research methods course, selected from 6009, 6805, 7005, 7601, 7701 (3 s.h.)
Concentrations (choose one) 18 s.h.
English Studies: An approved, unified program of study including at least 3 hrs. from each of 3 concentrations or areas of study, and an additional 9 hrs. of coursework chosen from ENGL courses.
Creative Writing: Select maximum of 12 hrs. from 5840, 5850, 5860 and 5890, and minimum of 6 hrs. from 6865, 6870, and 6880.
Linguistics: 7530 and 15 hrs. from 6505, 6526, 6527, 6528, 6529, 6531, 7525, 7535, 7605, 7680, 7565.
Literature: Select 6 hrs. from 5160, 5165, 6116, 6121, 6131, 6151, 6215. Select 6 hrs from 5125, 5150, 5170, 5230, 5250, 5260, 5275, 5280, 6155, 6175, 6185, 6220, 6250, 6260, 6330, 6350, 6390. Select 6 hrs from any of those mentioned above, as well as from ENGL 5060, 5330, 6340, 6360, 6370, 6380, 6450, 6460, 6515, 6870, 7065, 7070, 7165, 7265, 7365.
Multicultural and Transnational Literatures: Select 18 hrs. from 6330, 6340, 6350, 6360, 6370, 6380, 6420, 6450, 6460, 7300, 7350, 7365.
Rhetoric and Composition: 6625, 7615, 7630, and 6 hrs from 6000, 7665, 7950, 7960, 7975, and 3 additional hours from Linguistics, TESOL, or Technical and Professional Communication.
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL): 6528, 6531, 7530, and 9 hrs. from 6529, 7525, 7535, 6505, 6526, 6527, 7565, 7605, 7680.
Technical and Professional Communication: 7702, and 15 hrs. from 6700, 6715, 6721, 6725, 6740, 6741, 7701, 7705, 7710, 7712, 7716, 7730, 7745, 7746, 7750, 7765, 7766, 7780, 7785, 7790.
English electives or courses from another department (6 s.h.)
A Thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to gather, arrange, and interpret material that bears on a particular problem (6 s.h.).
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A Comprehensive Assessment Project and additional coursework in English (6 s.h.).
Research Skills Requirement: A reading knowledge of a language other than English. Students concentrating in technical and professional writing, rhetoric and composition, linguistics, TESOL, and other suitable fields may substitute an appropriate level of computer skills.
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