Graduate study in English leads to the Master of Arts degree. Courses enhance students’ ability to critically interpret culturally diverse texts and to demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of theoretical approaches to analyses of language, literature, and composition. Students are trained in scholarly research and to analyze texts in their historical, social, cultural, and technological contexts. The graduate program prepares students who aspire to teach at the higher secondary and/or lower levels of college English, or to pursue careers in the public and private sectors.