Overview

The English Literature Combined Pathway program requires careful planning that should begin in the second year of the student’s undergraduate career at Buffalo State SUNY. The student and the primary adviser (or department chair) should consult in planning the undergraduate degree program so that all requirements are met during undergraduate study and the 12 credits of master’s courses from the MA Program in English are included in the degree plan. Students must meet graduate expectations for academic progress and grade point average in their master’s level courses to remain in the combined pathway.

Students will:

1. Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the periods, genres, and major writers of British and American literature, and an awareness of the various critiques and revisions of this literature’s canon.

2. Demonstrate familiarity with major movements or writers of literatures in English outside British and American literature, and be able to place that literature within worldwide cultural and literary trends.

3. Describe and explain how the literature is affected by cultural and historical forces.

4. Analyze how ideas and attitudes about race, class, gender, nationhood, age, religion, and sexuality evolved through various periods of literary study.

5. Produce quality written work reflecting the conventions of the field, including current MLA format, marked by high standards of clarity, coherence, organization, and substantiation, and of various types including literary analysis/criticism, professional writing, research/scholarly writing, and informal/reflective writing.

6. Conduct both library and online research, by identifying and differentiating among various research methodologies.

7. Evaluate critical scholarship about literature, and integrate criticism into written and oral discussions of texts under study.

8. Write research papers that contribute new perspectives on current scholarly and methodological debates.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Literary Movements
Literary Criticism And Theory
Shakespeare
Representative Writer
Research In Literature And Language

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-31 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-28 00:00:00
Starting 2027-01-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-08 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

5.5

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Credits

138 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Buffalo, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

2.7

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Admission into the combined pathway is highly selective. Applicants must have completed 24 credit hours in English, at least 18 of which must be in literature courses, with an overall GPA of 2.75 and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in all English classes. Matriculated undergraduate students may apply to the BA/MA pathway immediately before or in their third year (junior year) or as rising seniors. Students transferring to Buffalo State may apply to the program in their junior year. In order to remain in the program, students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher in all their English courses.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

18810 USD / year

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Out-of-State

18810 USD / year

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In-State

7070 USD / year

≈ 7070 USD / year

Living costs

Buffalo

United States

920 - 1560 USD / month

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