English BA/MA

• Applicants will apply during their junior year.
• Completion of 75-90 undergraduate credits toward the BA in English.
• Overall GPA (transfer and FGCU credits) of at least 3.2.
• GPA in the major of at least 3.5 (this includes all 3000 and 4000-level courses with the AML, ENL, LIT, ENG, ENC, or CRW prefixes).
• At least 18 credits of 3000- and 4000-level courses in English, including ENG 3014 Methods of Literary and Cultural Studies, completed or in process.

• Writing sample of 8-10 double-spaced pages of literary analysis, preferably including research.
• Personal statement of 2-3 double-spaced pages about career and personal goals connected with pursuing graduate work in English. This statement should explain the motivation for pursuing a Master's degree at FGCU, goals connected with pursuing this degree, and the intended focus of graduate studies.
• Names and email addresses of two recommenders at FGCU to support the application.
• Minimum score of 153 on the Verbal Reasoning portion of the GRE.
• Minimum score of 3.5 on the Analytical Writing portion of the GRE.

• Each student is responsible for completing application materials for the MA in English within one semester of graduation from the BA program to ensure continuous enrollment under the current catalog. Students who do not successfully complete the application to the MA program within one semester of graduation from the BA program will be dropped from the combined BA/MA program and would then be required to complete all 33 credit hours to satisfy the English MA requirements. Students will be accepted into the MA program if they have fulfilled all of the requirements for admission. Upon acceptance into the graduate program, students will be classified as Graduate.  Students will complete an additional 21 graduate credits to satisfy the MA in English as outlined in the catalog.  Graduate credits taken while an Undergraduate will be double-counted to reach the 33 required credits for the MA English as approved by the English MA Coordinator. 

• In order to finish the combined degree in five years, students in the combined program must complete at least 12 credits of 5000-6999 level courses in English as undergraduates before entering the master’s program.

Candidates for the combined program will apply during the junior year.  Application materials (see above) except the GRE scores are submitted to the English MA Coordinator.  The GRE scores are submitted to Graduate Studies.  The English MA Coordinator will inform Graduate Studies of candidates, and Graduate Studies will forward GRE scores to the English MA Coordinator.

Combined program applications are reviewed by a committee of English graduate faculty.  The English MA Coordinator is responsible for communicating with the student regarding the committee’s decision. The English MA Coordinator will notify the Office of the Registrar when the UGGR (UG-GR combined program) attribute needs to be added, removed, or ended on a student record.

Students accepted into the combined program meet with the English MA Coordinator to plan course schedules.  The English MA Coordinator arranges for the student to be registered in the approved graduate courses.  Students will remain classified as Undergraduates until the bachelor’s degree is awarded.  Graduate courses applied to the undergraduate degree must be manually entered in Degree Works as a force complete. The English MA Coordinator will work with the academic advisor for the BA English program to manage the force complete process.

A minimum grade of B is required for each graduate course to be double counted. The 12 credits to be double counted are as follows: ENG 6058 Introduction to Graduate Study in English (offered every Fall semester) plus 9 credits from the MA English program (with prior approval of English MA Coordinator), excluding 6910 (Directed Independent Research) designations. Students interested in becoming a teaching assistant should take ENC 6745 Seminar in Composition Pedagogy (offered every Spring). Students are encouraged to take ENG 6940 English Master’s Internship.

Students who begin the combined program as undergraduates but either opt not to enter the master’s program or do not receive a B or higher in each of the graduate courses taken as undergraduates could still earn the BA in English at the end of their senior year, if they have completed the 120 credits required for undergraduate degree and satisfied all other degree requirements.