MA English, Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing course recommendations  

Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing (listed courses are available online)

• ENG 501 Graduate Composition
• ENG 503 Written Communication in Organizations
• ENG 511 Writing Theory and Practice
• ENG 519 Technology and Visual Literacy
• ENG 520 Literacy Studies
• ENG 521 Language and Diversity
• ENG 570 Intro to Multimedia Design
• ENG 610 Autobiographical Literacies
• ENG 631 Argumentation
• ENG 685 Research Project

Literature (listed courses are available online)

• ENG 553 Shakespeare
• ENG 560 Literary Criticism
• ENG 641 Eighteenth Century Literature
• ENG 643 20th-Century American Literature
• ENG 655 The Novel & Its Tradition

Creative Writing (listed courses are available online)

• ENG 573 The Writer’s Creative Process

Linguistics (listed courses are available online mostly during summer term)

• ENG 504 Intro to Language and Linguistics
• ENG 538 Cross-cultural Aspects of Language Learning
• ENG 548 Fundamentals of Second Language Teaching
• ENG 558 ESL Methods and Materials: Listening & Speaking
• ENG 559 ESL Methods and Materials: Reading and Writing
• ENG 638 Assessment for Second Language Skills

Professional Writing (listed courses are available online)

• ENG 502 Advanced Technical Writing
• ENG 517 Professional Editing
• ENG 522 Rhetoric & Writing in Professional Communities
• ENG 549 Information Design and Usability Testing
• ENG 569 Project Management and Document Design
• ENG 605 Writing Effective Proposals
• ENG 606 Issues in Technical and Professional Writing

Useful guidelines

• • If you have been admitted to a master’s program at Northern Arizona University and have earned graduate credit at another university, you may petition to apply such credit toward a master’s degree at Northern Arizona University. Please see  http://www2.nau.edu/gradcol/Forms/TransCreditReq.pdf for details on transfer credit.

   

• A total of nine credits can come from outside of the Northern Arizona University English Department. These courses can be transfer courses and/or courses from a department other than English.