Ten Reasons to Apply for an MA in English
A. Noelle Brada-Williams
Graduate Coordinator
(408) 924-4439
Faculty Offices 110
awilli@email.sjsu.edu
Ten reasons to apply:
- Small seminar classes (averaging 15-16 students) taught by actively publishing, available faculty ;
- Wide range of seminars in American, British, and World Literature as well as seminars in literary research, rhetoric, and composition studies;
- Numerous cash awards for student writing;
- MA increases secondary school teachers’ salaries;
- MA or other advanced degree required for teaching in California Junior Colleges;
- Option to continue graduate study in major doctoral programs;
- Teaching opportunities while completing the degree through the department’s Graduate Assistant and Teaching Associate programs;
- Chance to take creative writing workshops taught in the MFA program ;
- Option of writing an MA Thesis ;
- Opportunity to be part of an active intellectual, artistic, and social community .
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