English Language & Literature

Graduate Program - Text/Community/Discourse 

Graduate Program Director
Professor James Allard jallard@brocku.ca
 
Type of Program
This Program includes a preferred Major Research Paper option and is designed to be completed in twelve months. A thesis option is also available under exceptional circumstances, with approval of the Graduate Director. The Major Research Paper option requires six courses plus a Research Paper; the Thesis Option requires four courses plus a thesis.

Graduates of the MA program have been accepted into doctoral programs at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University, the University of Saskatchewan, Dalhousie University, Southern Methodist University, and Memorial University.

Program Length
Twelve months

 The Field
As mutually informing concepts, the terms of our Field - "text,""community" and "discourse" - suggest the power of texts to reflect and to shape both communities of origin and communities of reception. The Program also focuses critical attention on the kinds of negotiation - both material and theoretical - attending the production, performance and reception of texts. Literary and textual problems acquire richer significance when viewed in relation to the ways in which texts, both literary and non-literary, are produced and used in the often conflicting discourses that constitute the culture of a community.