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Program Information The Department of English offers a Summer Master's Program designed especially for teachers who are interested in strengthening their command of literature, as well as honing their critical and literacy skills. Though teachers are the main intended constituency, we also have mature students who wish, for other reasons, to return for a terminal graduate program. The degree offered reflects UCI's traditional emphasis on critical theory, though it also provides a strong grounding in literary history. It is equivalent to the M. A. degree earned by the Department's full-time graduate students, except that we have no foreign-language requirement for the summer program. It is a two-year program with an additional year allotted for an M.A. thesis. We admit roughly 20 students each summer, with 20 students continuing from the previous summer. We limit enrollments to ensure small seminars and close-working relationships with the faculty, which we believe provide the essential conditions for intensive and satisfying literary study. Students select eight seminars over two consecutive summers. Each summer is comprised of two four-week sessions. Students enroll in two seminars in each session. Students complete the degree by writing a master's thesis, which normally follows the completion of course work, and is to be submitted by the end of the third summer. Annually, the sessions are timed to accommodate secondary school calendars as fully as possible. Typically, sessions open in late June and close before Labor Day. Classes take place for two hours on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. |