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Applying to our Graduate Programs
To apply, begin by going to SIUE Graduate Admissions, which contains all necessary information regarding applying to SIUE, including requirements, fees, deadlines, application forms, and financial aid.
Each program and specialization requires additional application materials. You can find the specific materials required in the Graduate Catalog using the program links below.
For helpful information on applying to our programs, please visit our application information page.
Degrees & Programs (Graduate Catalog)
Degree Program Listing
Literature
The literature specialization's vibrant curriculum allows students to study a range of literary texts, from the contemporary U.S.A., to world diasporas, to Chaucer's England. Students interested in this degree often go onto further advanced graduate study or teach at the community college level. Click here for more information.
Literature Specialization Admission Requirements
- Graduate School application and $40 fee
- Submission of all academic transcripts
- Successful completion of a bachelor's degree prior to enrollment
- Minimum GPA of 2.50
- International Applicants: Proof of English Proficiency, minimum requirements are TOEFL (79), IELTS (6.5) or equivalent
- Three letters of recommendation.
- A one-page statement of purpose
- A recent sample of the applicant’s writing, at least ten pages in length. The admissions committee prefers to read papers which engage in literary analysis, but will accept any paper which demonstrates the ability to conduct scholarly investigation.
- Accelerated Combined Degrees: Current SIUE undergraduate students may apply for the accelerated option to earn graduate-level credit for courses taken their senior year.
Program application materials may be uploaded during the application process, but official transcripts must be sent directly from the school attended, and test scores must be verifiable with the appropriate testing service. Please contact the Graduate Admissions office with questions regarding the application submission process at graduateadmissions@siue.edu.
For applicants to the literature specialization, there is a requirement of one year of college-level course work (or its equivalent) in the same modern or classical foreign language, with at least a C average. These requirements may be satisfied during the course of the student’s graduate studies.
Review the SIUE Admissions Policy for more information.
Teaching of Writing
The mission of the Teaching of Writing specialization at SIUE is to offer students a thorough, professional grounding in the theory, research methodology, history, and practice of the teaching of writing.
The Teaching of Writing specialization, as one program of study within the Masters of Arts in English, makes a specific contribution to SIUE's Graduate School mission "to provide students with the intellectual ability to understand, create, integrate, and apply sophisticated discipline specific knowledge." This specialization, which originated in 1986, responded to the need for a rhetoric-composition MA program in southern Illinois and the St. Louis metropolitan area. Click here for more information.
ToW Admission Requirements
- Graduate School application and $40 fee
- Submission of all postsecondary academic transcripts
- Successful completion of a bachelor's degree prior to enrollment
- Minimum GPA of 2.50
International Applicants: Proof of English Proficiency, minimum requirements are TOEFL (79), IELTS (6.5) or equivalent - Three letters of recommendation
- Statement of Purpose: A three- to five-page paper which explains how the applicant became interested in the field of Teaching of Writing, what the applicant hopes to learn in the program, and how that learning will help the applicant in a career.
Program application materials may be uploaded during the application process, but official transcripts must be sent directly from the school attended, and test scores must be verifiable with the appropriate testing service. Please contact the Graduate Admissions office with questions regarding the application submission process at graduateadmissions@siue.edu.
Review the SIUE Admissions Policy for more information.
