ENGL 5000 - Introduction to Graduate Studies in English

(3) Credit Hours

This graduate seminar is designed to prepare students for graduate-level research and writing as well as prepare them for futures in teaching, doctoral studies, and alt-ac and others careers. The course covers how to be a successful graduate student. It also asks students to begin thinking about what they want to do with the degree. Finally, the course covers a range of research methods in English Studies, all grounded in doing rhetorical and literary criticism. Finally, the course introduces students to job market complexities and trends.

Seminar participants will gain strategies for locating key conversations, key terms, and key voices, as well as strategies for effectively entering those scholarly conversations through learning about: bibliographies (published, as well as those posted online); major journals and book publishers in the field; calls for papers (for conferences and articles and chapters); and scholarly genres (e.g., conference proposals and “papers”) and their rhetorical, substantive, and stylistic elements—including citation practices.