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ENG-PTC - English, Professional and Technical Communication Concentration, M.A.

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EnglishGRM.A.

Program Overview

Admission Requirements

Degree Requirements and Requisites

Additional Information

Undergraduate Fast Track Program

Completion requirement

Complete all of the following:

  • course Digital Design

  • course Intro-Graduate Studies

  • course Publishing Theory and Practice

  • One 6000-level Literature course

Complete ALL of the following Courses:

  • course will be taken if on assistantship; otherwise, one graduate-level elective, 3 credit hours, to be selected by student and advisor. (PC/ENGL5XXX-6XXX)

*PC6040 and PC6050 may be taken twice, provided the content is different.

For students who have taken any of the PC courses at the 4000-level, two 5000-level ENGL courses from the list below may be substituted for two 5000-level PC courses listed.

  • course Writing in the Professions

  • course Forms of Arg-Pers/Theo-Prac

  • course Intro/Descriptive Linguistics

  • course History-English Language

  • course Grammar and Language

  • course Topics in Linguistics/Language

  • course Intro-Rhetoric/Theo-Prac

  • course American English

Complete the following:

In addition to the specific course requirements for their respective concentrations, an oral defense of their portfolio is required for all concentrations.

Completion requirement

The student will be responsible for compiling a four-part portfolio, to be designed in conjunction with and reviewed by their faculty committee. Students will orally defend their portfolios to their committee, and faculty committee members will then evaluate the questions and defense on a pass/fail basis. A "pass" for the defense requires a simple majority of the committee.

Portfolio Components

1. Project Proposal/Prospectus which provides background on the projects, theoretical influences [drawn from courses] on their proposed redevelopment, a description of the specific projects included, and a timeline for completion.

2. Two digital artifacts from other graduate courses that have been redeveloped and expanded (Examples include but are not limited to podcasts, videos, social media creation and curation accounts, websites, technical reports, and grants.)

3. A Client Project (This would be completed while a student is enrolled in a graduate-level internship. Because the portfolio option requires an additional course, that course would be PC 5850 - Internship.

4. A Critical Reflection (This reflection integrates sources/theoretical background from previous courses as well as additional sources.)

NOTE: While students within the Professional and Technical Communication concentration of the English M.A. will have opportunities for teaching assistantships, graduate students will not teach PC 2500 - Communicating in the Professions.