Completion of the thesis will most likely extend into the summer. The Master of English is intended for those who wish to pursue advanced study in English, but who are not especially preparing for a professional career in teaching or research. The degree requires 30 hours of graduate course work in English and the successful completion of a comprehensive examination. Courses in Literature 5301-5310. These numbers indicate undergraduate courses taken for graduate credit.
Additional work is assigned for graduate students.
Studies in Myth. A consideration of literary renderings of myth with a view to grasping how myths inform particular works of literature. Authors frequently treated include Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, Virgil, Spenser, Yeats, Joyce, Faulkner, Freud, Eliade, Levi-Strauss, V. Turner. The English Renaissance. Through study of literature written under the Tudors and Stuarts the course reflects upon artistic accomplishment amid conflicting perspectives upon man and society, the Church, the relation between Christianity and rediscovered classical ideals, an emerging new science.