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If you are slightly below a 3.0 GPA, you may still apply, but you must send a personal statement and recommendation letters to the English Department Chair: Dr. Ed Zoerner, ezoerner@csudh.edu
Students who have earned a 3.75 GPA may elect to undertake a thesis, provided that they can form a thesis committee with the relevant specialization and have their proposal approved by the graduate committee. Students with less than a 3.75 GPA may on rare occasions write a thesis if they have permission of a thesis mentor and the graduate coordinator, as well as the graduate committee; such students should already have a promising project based upon a seminar paper or other work done with the thesis mentor.
In order to facilitate a timely completion of the thesis, students are encouraged to expand promising seminar papers into their thesis whenever possible. The thesis prospectus should be signed by the thesis mentor and the second readers and submitted to the graduate coordinator by the last day of classes in the semester prior to writing the thesis. The completed and signed thesis is due in the graduate studies office by November 1 for fall graduation, April 1 for spring graduation, and June 10 for summer graduation. In order to meet these deadlines, students should allow 1 month for revisions with their mentor, and 1 month of revisions with the second and third readers. This means that thesis students planning to graduate in the spring should, if at all possible, have their first draft to their mentor by February 1. Students planning to graduate in the fall should, if at all possible, have their first draft to their mentor by September 1.
Due to COVID-19, the Fall 2020 exams will be conducted on-line. For additional information specific to the Fall exams, please consult the the MA Exam Guide Addendum
Information about the comprehensive exam can be found in the Exam Preparation Booklet.
Click here to view the current M.A. Reading List
Please consult the M.A. in English Literature/ Rhet Comp Advising Worksheet
You may contact Dr. Best for advising. Dr. Best can be emailed at dbest@csudh.edu.
The Advancement to Candidacy form should be completed before your last semester of coursework. You will not be allowed to take the comprehensive exams or do a thesis until this form is filled out. Please see Dr. Best in LCH E309 for advising.
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