English Language and Literature Master’s program at Old Dominion University

This emphasis provides students with an opportunity to delve deeply into the fields of literature, composition, and linguistics while developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to implement equity pedagogy in the secondary and post-secondary English class.

Invites participants in the program to strengthen their disciplinary understandings, pursuing graduate-level coursework in literature, linguistics, and rhetoric and composition.

Allows participants in the program to select methods courses that will most support them in their growth as teachers of English (These courses include Pedagogy and Instructional Design Teaching Literature Teaching Composition, Grades 6-12 Teaching College Composition Methods and Materials in TESOL Creative Writing Pedagogy etc.).

Includes field experiences in schools as well as in university and community programs that aim to empower readers and writers.

Prepares participants in the program to share their ideas teaching and learning in the English class at local and national conferences that support secondary and post-secondary English teachers in their growth as practitioners and researchers of English education.

Teach students in one or subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies at the secondary level in public or private schools. May be designated according to subject matter specialty.

Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Teach courses in English language and literature, including linguistics and comparative literature. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

View full course description for Introduction to Research and Criticism.

Required of most graduate students in English, usually in the first semester.

Required of most graduate students in English, usually in the first semester. Survey of English as an academic discipline issues and trends in scholarly journals research strategies and conventions for graduate-level papers and master theses critical approaches to literature.

View full course description for The Teaching of Composition, Grades 6-12.

View full course description for The Teaching of Literature.

This course is designed to provide an intensive examination of issues, approaches, and methods utilized in the teaching of literature, particularly literature written for children and young adults.

Estimated rates for the 2023-24 academic year. Rates are subject to change. Anyone that is not a current Virginia resident will be charged non-resident rates. That includes international students.

Technology Delivered Courses Outside Virginia and or the United States.

Students have the option of applying for a Graduate Assistantship offering a stipend against tuition while gaining experience in research, tutoring, or in the classroom.