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Degree Programs

  • English Major (BA) & Minor
  • Digital, Public, and Professional Writing Minor
  • Digital, Public, and Professional Writing Concentration
  • MA-TESOL
  • Creative Writing (MFA & Undergrad Minor)
  • MA and PhD with Three Focus Areas:
  • Literature (MA & PhD)
  • Composition, Rhetoric and English Studies (MA & PhD)
  • Strode Program in Renaissance Studies (MA & PhD)

Our Programs

The University of Alabama Department of English offers the following degree programs:

Graduate

  • MA-TESOL
  • MA and PhD with three focus areas in Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies (CRES); Literature; and a subfocus in early modern literature through the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies 
  • MFA: Creative Writing

Undergraduate

  • BA in English
  • Minor in English
  • Minor in Creative Writing
  • Minor in Digital, Public, and Professional Writing

Interdisciplinary Minors

There are also four interdisciplinary minors that require not only English courses but also electives chosen from other departments, such as Modern Languages and Classics, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Communicative Disorders:

  • World Literature
  • Interdisciplinary Linguistics
  • Medieval and Early Modern European Studies (MEMES)
  • African American Studies

Visit the UA Undergraduate Catalog for information about all our minor programs, including course requirements.

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