The Master of Arts in English at Belmont is a community based program tailored for working adults which seeks to expand students' knowledge and understanding of literature by enhancing their abilities in critical reading, in practical literary analysis, and in effective written and oral communication.
- The program offers you:
- Evening, Summer, and Online Classes
- Literature, Writing, and Non-Thesis tracks
- Small class size (usually 7-15 students)
- Engaged, enthusiastic, accessible professors
- Careful mentoring
- Innovative teaching across a variety of challenging courses
- Textual, historical, and theoretical studies of British, American, and multicultural literatures and writing
- A broad perception of the theoretical and practical issues in the discipline of English
Your graduate courses at Belmont will be small, engaging, and interactive, emphasizing textual analysis and effective oral and written communication. Throughout your coursework, you will be introduced to various traditions of interpreting texts and challenged by contemporary theories that bring those traditions into question.
Many students graduating from our program will go on to professional schools, including Law Schools and Ph.D. programs in English; teach English full-time in high schools and community colleges or part-time as adjuncts at universities; or work in publishing, communications, or administration.
Director: Dr. James Wells
(615) 460-6239 or 460-5657
