English

• *ENG 504 Intro to Language and Linguistics
• ENG 510 Methods in Teaching English as a Second Language
• ENG 518 Sociolinguistics
• ENG 528 Grammatical Foundations
• *ENG 538 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Language Learning
• *ENG 548 Fundamentals of Second Language Teaching
• *ENG 558 ESL Methods and Materials: Listening & Speaking
• *ENG 559 ESL Methods and Materials: Reading & Writing
• *ENG 638 Assessment for Language Skills
• ENG 688 TESL Practicum

Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing (all courses are available online)

• ENG 501 Graduate Composition
• ENG 503 Written Communication in Organizations
• ENG 511 Writing Theory and Practice
• ENG 519 Technology and Visual Literacy
• ENG 520 Literacy Studies
• ENG 521 Language and Diversity
• ENG 570 Intro to Multimedia Design
• ENG 610 Autobiographical Literacies
• ENG 631 Argumentation
• ENG 685 Research Project

Recommended elective courses (*available online; all other courses available in person)

• ENG 500 Graduate Literary Studies
• ENG 513 Chaucer
• ENG 515 Classical Literature
• ENG 516 Women Writers & Feminist Theory
• ENG 523 British Authors
• ENG 524 American Authors
• ENG 525 World Authors
• ENG 527 Folklore Theory & Techniques
• ENG 545 Chicano/Chicana Literature
• ENG 546 American Indian Literature
• *ENG 547 African American Literature
• ENG 551 Cultural Studies
• *ENG 553 Shakespeare
• *ENG 560 Literary Criticism
• *ENG 573 The Writer’s Creative Process
• ENG 576 Literature for Adolescents
• ENG 581 Language Learning and Literacy
• ENG 583 Approaches to Teaching Writing in the Secondary Classroom
• ENG 599 Contemporary Developments
• ENG 640 Renaissance Literature
• *ENG 641 18th-Century Literature
• ENG 642 19th-Century American Literature
• *ENG 643 20th-Century American Literature
• ENG 644 Counter-traditions in American Literature
• ENG 645 19th-Century British Literature
• ENG 646 20th-Century British Literature
• ENG 651 Colonial/Postcolonial Literature
• *ENG 655 The Novel & Its Tradition
• ENG 660 Literary Theory
• ENG 662 Literary Periods / Genre Studies
• ENG 666 Film Studies
• ENG 676 Creative Nonfiction (instructor permission)

Professional Writing (all courses are available online)

• ENG 502 Advanced Technical Writing
• ENG 517 Professional Editing
• ENG 522 Rhetoric & Writing in Professional Communities
• ENG 549 Information Design and Usability Testing
• ENG 569 Project Management and Document Design
• ENG 605 Writing Effective Proposals
• ENG 606 Issues in Technical and Professional Writing

Useful guidelines

If you have been admitted to a master’s program at Northern Arizona University and have earned graduate credit at another university, you may petition to apply such credit toward a master’s degree at Northern Arizona University.

 

Please see  http://www2.nau.edu/gradcol/Forms/TransCreditReq.pdf for details on transfer credit.

 

A total of nine credits can come from outside of the Northern Arizona University English Department. These courses can be transfer courses and/or courses from a department other than English.