Your Department, CSU, Chico
Advancement to Candidacy:
In addition to any requirements listed in below:
1. Classified graduate standing and completion at the University of at least 9 units of the proposed program.
2. Fulfillment of the foreign language requirement (see below).
3. Formation of the graduate advisory (thesis) committee in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator.
4. Development of an approved program in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator. Such a program will include:
(a) A statement of aims.
(b) An outline of course units to be earned in pursuit of these aims.
(c) A description of the nature of the culminating activity.
Prerequisites for Admission to Classified Status:
In addition to any requirements in "Prerequisites for Students Who Don't Have an English Major or Minor":
1. Completion of a departmentally administered essay assignment, by those required to take TOEFL, during registration week of the first semester. Remedial work in composition will be required for those whose writing is judged inadequate by essay readers, and a student may not be advanced to classified status until an acceptable level of proficiency is reached.
2. Two letters of recommendation, preferably from English department faculty who know the student's work, to the departmental Graduate Coordinator.
3. Completion of ENGL 276 and ENGL 277, Survey of British Literature, or its equivalent. Students coming to Chico from undergraduate institutions that offer an undergraduate comprehensive examination in literature or a course of the same kind as the Survey of British Literature are requested to submit, when possible, as one of their letters of recommendation, a statement from a faculty member directly involved with that examination or course.
4. A post baccalaureate grade point average of at least 3.0 in a minimum of 12 departmentally specified units of letter-graded, graduate-level course work.
5. Completion of departmental literacy requirement.
Foreign Language Requirement:
Prior to advancement to candidacy, students must fulfill a foreign language requirement in one of the following ways:
1. Show evidence of completion, within the last five years, of the equivalent of two years of foreign language study at the college/university level with a grade of B or better; or
2. Show evidence of completion, within the last five years, of an upper-division foreign language literature course taught in the language with a grade of B or better; or
3. Demonstrate a reading knowledge of a foreign language through a departmentally authorized examination.
Note: Appropriate accommodations will be made for the deaf or hearing impaired. Units earned in language courses will not be counted toward the 30 units required for the Master of Arts in English. The language taken must be a major literary language. International students from non-English-speaking countries will be exempt from this language requirement.