About the Program
Enrollment in a combined pathway allows highly qualified, current SUNY Buffalo State students to work on the Master of Arts in English while completing the bachelor’s degree in English. Up to 12 credits of designated master’s courses are incorporated into the bachelor’s degree program and will count toward both the bachelor’s degree and the master’s degree. The program requires careful planning that should begin in the second year of the student’s undergraduate career at SUNY Buffalo State. The student and the primary adviser (or department chair) should consult in planning the undergraduate degree program so that all requirements are met during undergraduate study and up to 12 credits of master’s courses from the MA Program in English are included in the degree plan. Students must meet graduate expectations for academic progress and grade point average in their master’s level courses to remain in the combined pathway.
About the English Department
213 Ketchum Hall
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-5416
Fax:
https://english.buffalostate.edu/
Admission Requirements
Admission into the combined pathway is highly selective. Applicants must have completed 24 credit hours in English, at least 18 of which must be in literature courses, with an overall GPA of 2.75 and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in all English classes. Matriculated undergraduate students may apply to the BA/MA pathway immediately before or in their third year (junior year) or as rising seniors. Students transferring to Buffalo State may apply to the program in their junior year. To remain in the program, students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher in all their English courses.
Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the periods, genres, and major writers of British and American literature, and an awareness of the various critiques and revisions of this literature’s canon.
2. Demonstrate familiarity with major movements or writers of literatures in English outside British and American literature, and be able to place that literature within worldwide cultural and literary trends.
3. Describe and explain how the literature is affected by cultural and historical forces.
4. Analyze how ideas and attitudes about race, class, gender, nationhood, age, religion, and sexuality evolved through various periods of literary study.
5. Produce quality written work reflecting the conventions of the field, including current MLA format, marked by high standards of clarity, coherence, organization, and substantiation, and of various types including literary analysis/criticism, professional writing, research/scholarly writing, and informal/reflective writing.
6. Conduct both library and online research, by identifying and differentiating among various research methodologies.
7. Evaluate critical scholarship about literature, and integrate criticism into written and oral discussions of texts under study.
8. Write research papers that contribute new perspectives on current scholarly and methodological debates.
Program Requirements
General Education 23 Requirements (33 credit hours)
Undergraduate Program Requirements
Required Courses (15 credit hours)
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
ENG190 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG250 LITERARY MOVEMENTS | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG390 LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG490 SENIOR SEMINAR IN LITERATURE | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG315 SHAKESPEARE | 3 - Credit Hours
OR ENG322 REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG315 or ENG322 represents Major Figure course
Undergraduate Electives (18 credit hours)
Select six undergraduate ENG literature courses by advisement. Courses that were not used to satisfy one of the above requirements can be used as an elective. Up to three courses in the MA program (not including ENG 601) may be used to satisfy the undergraduate elective requirement.
ENG courses on film, writing, and education cannot be used to fulfill the English B.A. elective requirement.
Required Graduate Courses
Completion requirement
Required Course
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
ENG601 RESEARCH IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE | 3 - Credit Hours
Required M.A. course that will be used in B.A. and M.A. simultaneously (3 credit hours).
Choose up to 3 additional graduate elective courses (up to 9 credit hours)
Students who do not choose 3 additional graduate electives must take addition undergraduate electives to complete the 9 credit hours.
Selected by advisement. ENG 612, ENG 621, and ENG 623 may be taken up to three times with different topics each time.
Complete at least 3 of the following Courses:
ENG612 SELECTED TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG621 AMERICAN LITERATURE | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG623 LITERATURE OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG638 STUDIES IN INDIVIDUAL WRITERS | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG639 STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRES | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG644 IDEOLOGY AND LITERATURE | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG645 LITERATURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | 3 - Credit Hours
ENG670 ADVANCED LINGUISTICS | 3 - Credit Hours
At least three courses (9 credit hours) from among the undergraduate and graduate elective courses must be pre-1900 literature courses.
Elective courses in the M.A. that will be used in B.A. and M.A. simultaneously (9 credit hours).
78 Total Credit Hours