Master of Arts in Literature (Thesis Option)

Texas State University's Master of Arts (M.A.) in Literature program will help students forge a path toward a variety of careers based in reading, writing, and communication. It offers intimate courses, scholarships and fellowships, internship opportunities in research, writing, and teaching, and a welcoming, congenial atmosphere in which to find a literary community. Students can access essential and rare materials at Alkek Library and the Wittliff Collections and interact with renowned visiting scholars and writers.Our master's program offers excellent preparation for a variety of careers that call for outstanding critical thinking and verbal expression, including the law, communications, professional writing, editing, and publishing, and teaching on the secondary, community college, or university level. Graduates have been admitted to more than 50 advanced degree and doctoral programs and have received generous scholarships and fellowships to support their studies.The Master of Arts (M.A.) degree with a major in Literature offers courses from a wide range of topics, periods, and genres in British and American literature, as well as in critical theory.

baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited universityofficial transcripts from each institution where course credit was grantedminimum 2.75 GPA in the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work (plus any completed graduate courses)minimum 3.25 GPA in a minimum of 24 hours of undergraduate English, including at least 12 advanced hoursGRE not requiredadditional documents not requiredIELTS (academic) - overall scores required 6.5 and minimum individual module scores of 6.0TOEFL iBT - overall scores required with a 78 overall and minimum individual module scores of (19 listening, 19 reading, 19 speaking, 18 writing)