Subject: English
Credit units: 3
College: Graduate and Postdoc Studies
Department: English

This is a Research Methods course designed to support professional skills development for Master’s and Doctoral students in the Department of English. Its focus is the discipline of literary and textual studies: what we research, how we analyze texts and related materials, and how we propose, plan, and communicate the findings of our research projects. As well an overview of the basics of textual scholarship, the course will address research practices and supports, data management platforms, analytical and critical paradigms, and modes of research organization and dissemination. Discipline-specific assignments will be associated with each unit, enabling the direct application of skills towards degree-related outcomes, including the Master’s Project Proposal, the Master’s Thesis proposal, the PhD Fields Examination, and the PhD Dissertation Proposal, which represents the department’s Doctoral Candidacy Assessment.

Permission of the department is required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in a Department of English Graduate Program.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, as the orientation and outcomes of the course differ substantially between a Master’s-level and a Doctoral-level offering. .

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