Literature, Certificate

To be eligible for the graduate certificate in literature, a person must be admitted to the University as a graduate student (with either full or provisional status). An eligible person interested in the program should contact the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of English.

Requirements

Of the four required courses (12 credits), two must be core courses, ENG 690: Critical Approaches to Literature and ENG 615: Shakespearean Drama; three of the four courses must be at the 600-level; and one must be in American literature.

Core Courses
ENGL 690Critical Approaches to Literature3
ENGL 615Shakespearean Drama3
Additional Coursework
One American Literature Course3
Twentieth Century Literature
Literature of the 1930s
Poe and Hawthorne
Whitman & Dickinson
American Fiction: Realism & Naturalism
Modern American Fiction
American Women Poets
Thoreau, Emerson and Their Circle
One Other Literature Course3
Victorian Poetry & Prose
Victorian Fiction
20th Century British Poetry
British Fiction: 1900-1925
British Fiction Since 1925
American Romantic Fiction
Writers on Writing
International Poetry
Total Hours12