Master of Arts in English- Print Culture

The aim of the Print Culture specialization is to provide graduate students with a focused MA degree in a growing theoretical and interdisciplinary research field. Students study and work alongside a group of faculty and other graduate students with shared critical and research interests. In the Print Culture program, students study and work alongside a group of faculty and other graduate students with shared critical and research interests. Students also participate in a broader research community through visiting speakers, conferences and symposia organized around themes that develop out of the concerns of the program. The program will also introduce students to and encourage ties with other national and international societies, including SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) and CASBC (Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture) and cognate institutes and programs, such as the University of Toronto’s Book History Program, Carleton University’s Centre for the Study of Text, Culture and History, the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the History of the Book, the University of London’s Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, the Iowa Center for the History of the Book, and Penn State’s Center for the History of the Book.The Master of Arts (MA) program develops scholars with a critical and comprehensive awareness of English studies. While offering specialization in one of various areas of strength in the department, the program requires a breadth requirement through course work and thereby grounds students’ interests in a wide and flexible understanding of English studies.This program offers a course work option and a project option, with an optional specialization in print culture, for a minimum of 32 units.

A Bachelor’s degree from SFU or its equivalent from a recognized institution.A minimum 3.5 CGPA (cumulative grade point average). The print culture specialization can be done as either a course option or a project option. Both course option and project option students take ENGL 820, “Theoretical approaches to Print Culture”, in their first (fall) semester of the Masters program. This course, taught by the Print Culture Program Co-ordinator, will provide students with the necessary theoretical and historical grounding in the field. Course option students will take an additional five courses for the MA, of which three must carry the Print Culture designation. Project option students will take an additional four courses for the MA, of which two must carry the Print Culture designation plus ENGL 882, the MA Project. The Print Culture Program Co-ordinator must approve the project's print culture designation. Students in the course work option are expected to complete the program requirements in three terms. Students in the project option are expected to complete the program requirements in three to six terms. For international students, either a degree from an English-speaking post-secondary institution or top scores in any of the acceptable English language test, i.e. TOEFL Paper (650 plus), TOEFL Computer-Based (280 plus), TOEFL Internet-Based (95 plus),