Students with an M.A. in English can complete the program in 27 hours. Students with an A.B. in English can complete the program in 36 hours.

Students currently in the M.A. program who plan to apply for the Ph.D. must meet the same deadlines and provide the same evidence as students applying to the program from outside the University. In particular, students should discuss with the Graduate Coordinator the advisability of retaking both the GRE and the English subject test. Scores more than five years old are not accepted by the Graduate School. Except in unusual circumstances, M.A. students will not be formally admitted to the Ph.D. program or awarded assistantships until they have completed their M.A. degrees.

All applicants to the Ph.D. program, whether from outside the University or from our own masters’ students, are treated in precisely the same fashion by the Graduate Committee and are judged according to the same admissions standards. Completion of the M.A. degree at the University of Georgia does not in itself constitute proof of one's qualifications to enter the Ph.D. program. Detailed information about the admissions process and deadlines may be obtained at https://www.english.uga.edu/prospective-students.

The following required application materials should be sent to the UGA Graduate School via the graduate application portal: Application to Graduate School Unofficial Transcripts TOEFL scores for non-native English speakers 3 letters of recommendation: These letters should be submitted through the online application process. List the names of recommenders in the fields on the application along with their email addresses. For those applying for a Teaching Assistantship, one letter of recommendation should address the applicant's teaching record. The Graduate School will send referees a link to access a secure page where they can submit your recommendation via the web. Statement of Intent: Prepare a typed statement of 500 to 1000 words describing your reasons for applying to our graduate program in English and the kind of study you wish to pursue, including your area(s) of interest, as well as faculty with whom you would hope to work.

Students applying to the Creative Writing Program (CWP) should make clear areas of interest outside of forms and craft that inform their scholarship. Additionally, CWP students should explicitly articulate the connection between their academic interests and creative practice. Resume/CV: 1-2 pages outlining your work and teaching experience, if any. Critical Writing Sample: A critical look at a literature text. This sample may be an excerpt from a longer work and should run 10-15 typed pages; longer samples are discouraged. All creative writing students MUST submit both a critical and a creative sample.

Teaching Assistantship/ Research Assistantship Application. Creative Writing Samples (For Creative Writing Applicants Only): While the Program practices and fosters writing between, across, and within multiple genres and media, for purposes of the application we ask that you select a genre concentration and submit a sample consistent with that emphasis: 10 pages of poetry, or 20 pages of fiction or creative non-fiction. The GRE is not required for admission to any of our Graduate Programs.

Choose a minimum of 3 course(s) from the following:

8000-level seminars (excludes directed readings)

Creative Dissertation Track

Choose 1 course(s) from the following:

ENGL 6800

Topics in Forms and Craft

3

ENGL 8800

Seminar in Creative Writing

3

Creative Dissertation students are required to take at least one Creative Writing course a year, either ENGL 6800 or 8800. (Repetition is allowed but students are encouraged to study with at least three different creative writing professors. Students are strongly encouraged to take multigeneral workshops: e.g., poetry and prose, or fiction and non- fiction.)

Additionally, students are required to take directed reading or dissertation hours with one's advisor after the completion of course work. It is recommended that students take at least one 6800 (Topics in Creative Writing), if it is offered during the student’s residency.

It is also recommended that students take available Seminars and Topics courses offered in the English Department in Twentieth Century American and British Literature and Theory.

GRSC 7001

GradFIRST: First-year Research and Scholarship Training Seminar

1

Students with a bachelor's degree will take a minimum of 37 credit hours of course work exclusive of research hours before admission to candidacy, and at least 3 hours of doctoral research (ENGL 9300 or 9000) in each of three terms following admission to candidacy. These students are considered to be in the "extended" or 46-hour (37 + 9) Ph.D. program.

Students with the M.A. will take a minimum of 30 credit hours of course work, of which 3 hours may be dissertation research hours (9300), before admission to candidacy, and at least 10 hours following admission to candidacy. These students are considered to be in the 37-hour Ph.D. program.

The department allows students to select courses and areas for examination, while a system of advising seeks to ensure that each student will develop a coordinated Program of Study. Note: These doctoral course requirements are minimums only. The Department of English expects doctoral students to continue enrolling in graduate seminars that are pertinent to their dissertation research, or to anticipated areas of teaching, after admission to candidacy. It is assumed that students will work in close consultation with their Major Professor and Advisory Committee members to plot out a research agenda and a schedule of courses that would best support that agenda.

The Teaching Practicum (ENGL 6911) counts toward the course requirements. Students whose work is interdisciplinary in nature should seek appropriate graduate courses in departments other than English whose bodies of knowledge are essential to their scholarship and intellectual growth. Two such courses (outside of the department) can count toward the required number of course hours; however, please note that courses taken specifically to fulfill the Research Skills Requirement do not count toward required number of course hours.

Select additional courses, as needed, in consultation with an advisor to meet the minimum number of required credit hours for this program.

All requests for transfer credit must be endorsed by the Major Professor and approved by the Graduate Coordinator. The Graduate School’s policy on transfer credit can be found at https://policy.uga.edu/policies/#/programs/B1KwDRcZp.

Five years of funding usually through Graduate teaching Assistantship with the First Year Writing Program.

Departmental guidelines stipulate that graduate students who are awarded teaching assistantships but who have no previous experience of teaching first-year writing must take a teaching apprenticeship (English 6910) before they assume teaching duties. The Graduate School requires that TAs attend the university TA orientation, and the First-year Writing Program requires that TAs attend their program orientation. In the Fall Semester, teaching assistants who are teaching for the first time at UGA will also take a composition-pedagogy practicum (English 6911) for credit. Students receiving teaching assistantships are required by the University to enroll in a minimum of 12 hours of course work each semester (undergraduate courses do not count toward this minimum, including the “Reading For X” foreign language classes). Students receiving research assistantships have the same enrollment requirements, including the requirement that they enroll in 9 hours during the summer semester.

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