Jun 07, 2025  
2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin

Literature and Literary Criticism Graduate Certificate


Signify expertise in Literature and Literary Criticism through the Literature and Literary Criticism Graduate Certificate. This certificate requires nine (9) credit hours of graduate-level coursework in Literature and Literary Criticism seminars. This certificate will allow greater flexibility for students who are interested in literature as well as Creative Writing, Linguistics, and Technical and Professional Writing.

Program CIP Code


23.0101

Program Modality


  • On-Ground

Program Student Learning Outcomes


  • Critically analyze primary texts in the field of Literature
  • Critically analyze, apply, and discuss concepts and terminology, from literary history, criticism, or theory
  • Identify important questions in criticism and conduct independent research
  • Write rhetorically effective, disipline-specific essays that analyze and synthesize primary and secondary literature
  • Present and discuss ideas in the field with faculty and peers