In addition, full-time students are eligible for graduate assistantships. Most courses are offered during the evenings and weekends. A summer program for the study of children's and young adult literature within a close-knit community of scholars. Also for writers who wants concentrate on their craft in the context of serious study of the genre. Up to half of the credits required for the degree may be taken in creative writing.
Students can focus in on romance, science fiction, children's literature, or mysteries.
This is a program that engages students in a rigorous, disciplined academic study of children's literature. Courses approach children's literature from an historic or critical perspective. The English Department at The University of Connecticut, Storrs, offers both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Small seminars provide a wide range of courses in major authors, periods, genres, literary criticism and theory, children's literature, rhetoric and composition theory, women's literature and creative writing. Interdisciplinary studies are encouraged and students may design special courses with individual professors.