If so, you must fill out a Plan C Completion of Requirements for before October 1. A Plan C Completion of Requirements form simply alerts the Director of Graduate Studies that you plan to graduate during a given term. It no longer needs to be signed by your major professor. The form is available here. The filled-out form should either be emailed as an attachment with “Plan C Graduation” in the subject line(preferred), dropped off in Dr. Funda’s mailbox, or sent to her campus address (Dept of English, USU, 3200 Old Main Hill, Logan UT 84322-3200).
Monday, 23 September 2013
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Information on Graduate Programs
The Master of Arts and the Master of Science:
When applying to the School of Graduate Studies applicants should identify the degree they seek: “MA,” “MS,” or “PhD.” To earn the MA, they will need to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language while they are working towards their degrees. For further information on this language requirement and the acceptable ways of fulfilling it, see pp.104-105 of the graduate requirements in the General Catalog. Students who complete all degree requirements except for demonstrating proficiency in a foreign language earn the Master of Science degree.
Degrees and specializations:
Within the English master’s degree program, there are two possible specializations: Literature & Writing or Technical Writing. Within the American Studies degree, the two specializations are American Studies Standard and Folklore. Applicants should indicate their degree subject and their intended specialization on the application form: “English/Literature & Writing,” “English/Technical Writing,” “American Studies/Standard,” or “American Studies/Folklore.” Both the degree subject and the specialization will appear on the student's transcript and diploma.
Within the English master’s degree program, there are two possible specializations: Literature & Writing or Technical Writing. Within the American Studies degree, the two specializations are American Studies Standard and Folklore. Applicants should indicate their degree subject and their intended specialization on the application form: “English/Literature & Writing,” “English/Technical Writing,” “American Studies/Standard,” or “American Studies/Folklore.” Both the degree subject and the specialization will appear on the student's transcript and diploma.
MA/MS in
Literature and Writing
The graduate specialization in Literature and Writing offers an MA or MS in English to students who wish to do advanced work in the fields of literary criticism, composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. The aim is to professionalize students, helping them to become scholars and teachers of English. While any student having a strong undergraduate education in English, along with a desire to puruse that education further, is welcome to pursue the Literature and Writing specialization, the specialization does cater most directly to future PhD students in English, future two-year college instructors, and secondary educators.
The graduate specialization in Literature and Writing offers an MA or MS in English to students who wish to do advanced work in the fields of literary criticism, composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. The aim is to professionalize students, helping them to become scholars and teachers of English. While any student having a strong undergraduate education in English, along with a desire to puruse that education further, is welcome to pursue the Literature and Writing specialization, the specialization does cater most directly to future PhD students in English, future two-year college instructors, and secondary educators.
Technical Writing
The graduate specialization in Technical Writing is designed for students who already have some training and/or experience as practitioners of technical writing. It is taught entirely online, via the internet, and aims to prepare students to enter or reenter nonacademic workplaces, not just as practitioners, but also as developers and managers of technical documents. When they graduate, students will be qualified to determine and defend writing policy and practices in their workplaces. For more information, please visit the Technical Writing website.
Please click on the following links for more information regarding the Technical Writing Program:
MA/MS in American Studies
American Studies
The American Studies Program at Utah State University State University is designed to allow students freedom to pursue academic interests by permitting them to choose areas of concentration and relevant courses from a variety of departmental offerings. The program offers students a specialization in nonfiction writing about the American West, which includes creative nonfiction, place writing, memoir, narrative scholarship, essays, cross genre work, and popular culture or cultural studies essays for a nonacademic audience. The program's interdisciplinary structure provides students an opportunity to integrate studies in various fields into a broad understanding of American culture and its antecedents. Fore more information, please visit the American Studies website.
The American Studies Program at Utah State University State University is designed to allow students freedom to pursue academic interests by permitting them to choose areas of concentration and relevant courses from a variety of departmental offerings. The program offers students a specialization in nonfiction writing about the American West, which includes creative nonfiction, place writing, memoir, narrative scholarship, essays, cross genre work, and popular culture or cultural studies essays for a nonacademic audience. The program's interdisciplinary structure provides students an opportunity to integrate studies in various fields into a broad understanding of American culture and its antecedents. Fore more information, please visit the American Studies website.
Folklore
Folklore is allied with American Studies, and the MA degree is in American Studies, but Folklore students can have an international focus in their work. The academic folklore emphasis prepares students for teaching and researching. The public folklore emphasis prepares them for jobs in government, arts administration, and museum management. Both of these emphases allow for interdisciplinary, interdepartmental work in English, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, as well as other fields which may be germane to the student’s particular focus. Fore more information, please visit the Folklore webpage.
Creative writing
Although the department does not offer a graduate degree or specialization in creative writing, it includes a number of faculty who teach and publish creative writing. Utah State is an excellent place for students who have a background in creative writing and want to make it a significant part of their graduate work, perhaps with a view to an MFA degree. For instance, the Literature & Writing curriculum offers courses in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and students in that specialization may write creative thesis projects in any of those genres; and the American Studies Standard specialization offers students an emphasis in creative nonfiction writing on the American West.
The Theory and Practice of Professional Communication doctoral program is designed to meet the interests and needs of students who aspire to conduct advanced study and research of communicative practices of organizations and the professions. The program offers the opportunity to study professional communication, technology, and culture in a department with a long history of expertise and achievement in writing and technology.
Students have opportunities to study and work with advanced communication technologies, engage in extended fieldwork research experiences, and pursue tailored research interests within the field of professional communication. The program prepares students to become academic instructors/researchers or to move into administrative or research positions in nonacademic workplaces.
The department has a national reputation for its achievements in online education and continues to develop innovative ways to deliver state-of-the-art, Web-based instruction to students across the U.S. and around the world. Depending on their research and teaching interests, students may be actively involved in these efforts. Research facilities associated with the department allow Ph.D. students opportunities to participate in unique research and activities such as: computer lab classrooms, an Interactive Media Research Lab, and the Learning Games Initiative.
Folklore is allied with American Studies, and the MA degree is in American Studies, but Folklore students can have an international focus in their work. The academic folklore emphasis prepares students for teaching and researching. The public folklore emphasis prepares them for jobs in government, arts administration, and museum management. Both of these emphases allow for interdisciplinary, interdepartmental work in English, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, as well as other fields which may be germane to the student’s particular focus. Fore more information, please visit the Folklore webpage.
Creative writing
Although the department does not offer a graduate degree or specialization in creative writing, it includes a number of faculty who teach and publish creative writing. Utah State is an excellent place for students who have a background in creative writing and want to make it a significant part of their graduate work, perhaps with a view to an MFA degree. For instance, the Literature & Writing curriculum offers courses in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and students in that specialization may write creative thesis projects in any of those genres; and the American Studies Standard specialization offers students an emphasis in creative nonfiction writing on the American West.
Doctoral Program
The Theory and Practice of Professional Communication doctoral program is designed to meet the interests and needs of students who aspire to conduct advanced study and research of communicative practices of organizations and the professions. The program offers the opportunity to study professional communication, technology, and culture in a department with a long history of expertise and achievement in writing and technology.
Students have opportunities to study and work with advanced communication technologies, engage in extended fieldwork research experiences, and pursue tailored research interests within the field of professional communication. The program prepares students to become academic instructors/researchers or to move into administrative or research positions in nonacademic workplaces.
The department has a national reputation for its achievements in online education and continues to develop innovative ways to deliver state-of-the-art, Web-based instruction to students across the U.S. and around the world. Depending on their research and teaching interests, students may be actively involved in these efforts. Research facilities associated with the department allow Ph.D. students opportunities to participate in unique research and activities such as: computer lab classrooms, an Interactive Media Research Lab, and the Learning Games Initiative.
Welcome to the New Graduate Instructors!
Please join us welcoming the new class of GIs to the department. Pictured here during their GI "Boot Camp" (along with Assistant Director of Writing Lezlie Park, Evelyn Funda, and 1010 Ads Trisha Haber and Brian Cook), the new GIs are coming to us from a variety of backgrounds and locales. Included in this year's class is a former online marketing professional, a folklore student who has studied how myths and folklore are a part of everyday life in modern Ireland, a former member of the Americorp Literacy Initiative, a freelancer for the outdoor recreation industry, an artist and poet from Amman Jordan who once taught English in a Jordanian orphanage, and a writing student who loves theory and believes, as Alfred Whitehead posed, that all Western thought is simply “a series of footnotes to Plato.” This is just a sampling of the interesting backgrounds they bring to our department, and we are fortunate to have them join us.
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Graduate Student Research Training Series Event Thursday 9/5/2013
The RGS Office has established the Graduate Student Research Training Series, and our first event will be today, 9/5/2013. The SGS administration is excited to meet face-to-face with USU's graduate students. There will be an open panel format in which graduate students can ask the deans anything they've ever wanted to know about USU or grad school. We're doing this is a "truth or dare" format.
The Graduate Student Research Training Series is designed to provide supplemental professional development opportunities and a social outlet for graduate students. With a short activity and a light snack at the beginning, we will provide trainings from faculty and other resources from all over campus throughout the school year.
We hope this will be a great added resource for your students, and we hope you'll encourage them to attend today, 9/5/2013 in Library 101 from 1:00-2:00.
The Graduate Student Research Training Series is designed to provide supplemental professional development opportunities and a social outlet for graduate students. With a short activity and a light snack at the beginning, we will provide trainings from faculty and other resources from all over campus throughout the school year.
We hope this will be a great added resource for your students, and we hope you'll encourage them to attend today, 9/5/2013 in Library 101 from 1:00-2:00.
Publication Opportunity for Students and Faculty
City Hill Publishing, a small press out of Rancho Cordova, CA, is currently seeking submissions from new and established authors for an anthology of non-fiction/memoir essays. The anthology is entitled From the Bleachers and focus on significant professional sports events or figures from the perspective of the fans. Any major, professional sports event or figure is acceptable. We don't care if it is curling as long as it is an engaging, thoughtful, and articulate piece.
The memoir/essays must be well-written and emotionally impactful, discussing important moments that, in retrospect, held a special place in the writer's heart. For example, how a sports moment enhanced a relationship with a loved one, how the event/figure came at a powerful time in one's life, how an event/figure created community among a certain group, how an event/figure increased your love of the game, etc. Each essay/memoir must be centered around a professional sports event/figure and be positive and personal.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2013 at MIDNIGHT.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Please submit only one entry per person. Submissions must be no more than 3,000 words, double spaced in an easily readable font. Be sure to place a header with your name and page number on your work. Include a cover letter with your name, address, phone number, email, and title of your submitted piece.
For Email:
Send submissions as a Word or PDF file to info@cityhillpublishing.com. In the subject line, write 'SUBMISSIONS' along with your name. Cover letter information can be included in the body of the email.
Mail:
Send manuscript to:
City Hill Publishing
2941 Sunrise Blvd. Suite 270
Rancho Cordova, CA 95742
Please provide a SASE for a reply and if you want your manuscript returned.
Work accepted for publication will receive two copies of the anthology. By allowing us to publish your work, we reserve first publication rights and may be reprinted with permission by City Hill Publishing. Simultaneous submissions are welcome but please notify us if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
For more information, you can contact City Hill Publishing at our website: www.cityhillpublishing.com or check us out on Facebook.
The memoir/essays must be well-written and emotionally impactful, discussing important moments that, in retrospect, held a special place in the writer's heart. For example, how a sports moment enhanced a relationship with a loved one, how the event/figure came at a powerful time in one's life, how an event/figure created community among a certain group, how an event/figure increased your love of the game, etc. Each essay/memoir must be centered around a professional sports event/figure and be positive and personal.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2013 at MIDNIGHT.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Please submit only one entry per person. Submissions must be no more than 3,000 words, double spaced in an easily readable font. Be sure to place a header with your name and page number on your work. Include a cover letter with your name, address, phone number, email, and title of your submitted piece.
For Email:
Send submissions as a Word or PDF file to info@cityhillpublishing.com. In the subject line, write 'SUBMISSIONS' along with your name. Cover letter information can be included in the body of the email.
Mail:
Send manuscript to:
City Hill Publishing
2941 Sunrise Blvd. Suite 270
Rancho Cordova, CA 95742
Please provide a SASE for a reply and if you want your manuscript returned.
Work accepted for publication will receive two copies of the anthology. By allowing us to publish your work, we reserve first publication rights and may be reprinted with permission by City Hill Publishing. Simultaneous submissions are welcome but please notify us if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
For more information, you can contact City Hill Publishing at our website: www.cityhillpublishing.com or check us out on Facebook.
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