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Where
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What
are the Program's strengths? |
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How
many students are admitted each year? |
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What
is the graduate-student population like? |
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What
is the normal course load? |
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How
large are the classes? |
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What
is the atmosphere of the department? |
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How
long will it take me to complete my degree? |
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Can
I apply with a BA in an area other than English? |
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What
is the current tuition and fee rate? |
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After
finishing the MA, what are my options? |
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| Where
is the University located? |
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City
of Corpus Christi
South Texas and
the Gulf Coast
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| What
are the Program's strengths? |
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Views
from our alumni:
• The classes are small; graduates get individualized
attention and receive many opportunities for experiment/advancement
with research, teaching, grading, etc."
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"Students from traditionally marginalized backgrounds can
come here and find tremendous support, financially, emotionally,
academically."
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"Our English faculty maintain professional demeanors and high
academic expectations and criteria while communicating with
us on a very personal and human level. Not an easy trick to
pull off."
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"I received excellent advising and mentoring from my graduate
advisors….I was encouraged, supported, and always given
the attention and time to discuss whatever issues I needed
to address."
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| How
many students are admitted each year? |
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Since
its inception in 1993, between 10 and 15 students are accepted
into the program each year.
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| What
is the graduate-student population like? |
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Average age is in the mid-thirties.
• Gender mix: 71% percent are females, 29% are males.
• Ethnic mix: 25% Hispanic, 2% African American, and
73% White.
• Undergraduate GPA: average 3.37
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| What
is the normal course load? |
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A
full-time course load defined by the University is 9 credit
hours, or 3 courses per long semester.
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| How
large are the classes? |
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Core
courses usually have 10-15 students; electives 7-12 students.
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| What
is the atmosphere of the department? |
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Views
of alumni and students:
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"The atmosphere of collaboration and professional informality
permeates the department."
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"The English faculty are an exception to the long tradition
of departments that espouse an attitude toward students of
‘us versus them.’"
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"The English faculty rarely treated me as only a student;
they reinforced the idea that I and others in the program
were to be future colleagues and we were treated as such."
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| How
long will it take me to complete my degree? |
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If
you take 9 credit hours each long semester, you can finish
the program in two years. Many students, especially those
teaching full-time in the schools, reduce their hours fall
and spring, then take courses during the summer so that they
still finish in the normal two years.
We
encourage students who work either full- or part-time to take
a maximum of 6 credit hours during a semester. Less than 1/3
of students in the program take 9 or more credits per semester.
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I apply with a BA in an area other than English? |
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Yes—we
have several current students who have done so. In addition,
we have students enrolled in our English courses from other
graduate programs in the University, including Education,
History, Psychology, Computer Science, Communications, and
Interdisciplinary Studies.
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| What
is the current tuition and fee rate? |
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Tuition
& Fees - Texas
Residents (pdf) - Non-Texas
Residents (pdf)
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| After
finishing the MA, what are my options? |
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Since
its inception in 1993, many of our graduates have
come from (and returned) to elementary and high schools in
surrounding school districts. In addition, other graduates
have advanced to Ph.D. programs at the University of Kentucky,
Bowling Green State University, Arizona State University,
and Texas Tech University. Another has been accepted at the
University of Texas- Austin law school. Stills others are
working as technical writers
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