On this page you will find the following information: plan of
study, comprehensive assessment project, research skills requirement, application
for graduation, special studies seminars,
and transferring graduate courses with
non-English prefixes, non-degree ECU courses, and courses taken at
other universities.
- Plan of study ... Check sheet of requirements, including
courses and other
requirements
[plan of study]:
non-thesis
option [Almost all students complete this non-thesis
option, although we do have a thesis option.]
- Comprehensive assessment project.
For a 32-page pdf of the procedures as accessed from the
links in this section, click here. This
pdf document does not include examples of "papers" and "portfolios."
You must access them using the links below. If you have
questions about the comprehensive exam, contact Brent Henze at
tpc@ecu.edu
Begin planning your comprehensive assessment project the
semester before you
take
it: Check sheet:
rtf file
|
pdf file
- Outline of
the
event [what happens (procedures) when you take
your comprehensive
exam]: click here
- BE
sure that you indicate whether your comprehensive exam will be campus
f2f or phone v2v (voice-to-voice), as well as equipment needed, such as
overhead projection system. When you and your
director/committee members have determined a date for your
comprehensive exam, submit this internal form to
Administrative Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, currently
Shavon Carey (careys@ecu.edu):
click here
- Paper, including critical analysis approach:
click here
- "Working"
portfolio for job interviews and comprehensive
exam [exit interview]: click
here
- Research skills requirement [computer abilities] ... see
below.
- Application for graduation ... see below.
from catalog: "... Students emphasizing technical and
professional
writing, rhetoric and composition, linguistics/TESL, and other suitable
fields
may substitute an appropriate level of computer skills," as opposed to
completing
a foreign language requirement.
For your comprehensive assessment project, you prepare the
"computer
abilities form" along with your "working" portfolio. The works included
in
your "working" portfolio should more than demonstrate your computer
abilities.
Thus, this requirement is met through your comprehensive assessment
project.
To access the computer abilities form used to verify the research
skills
requirement, click
here
- Application
for graduation (to be completed the semester that you graduate or as
soon as you know you are graduating) and online graduate student exist
survey.
1. Complete
an application to graduate at the beginning of the fall or
spring/summer that you plan to graduate. Should you not complete your
comprehensive assessment project and not be able to graduate, your
application will be moved forward. Do remember that you must be
enrolled in a class the semester or summer session that you graduate.
You have several ways to apply for graduation.
- Complete an application
in the Registrar’s Office graduate division located in Whichard 108
Annex
- OR complete an application in office
of Administrative Assistant to Director of Graduate Studies in English,
Bate 2132
- OR submit the
form found on this website via email, fax, or mail: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/registrar/GraduationInfo.cfm.
If you choose to email
the application, you must email the application from your ECU email
account in order for it to be processed.
The
form appears at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/registrar/upload/GradApp.pdf
- Email to Natasha Shepard (shepardn@ecu.edu)
Office of the
Registrar, East Carolina University, Whichard
Building, Greenville, NC 27858
2. SURVEY ... As part
of the application process, you are asked to
complete ECU's online survey of
graduate students during the semester that you are scheduled to finish
your
degree.
To complete the survey, go to your OneStop.
- Special Studies Seminars in TPC
- English 7765:
Special Studies Seminar in TPC, can be taken over and over as long as
the topic is different each time you complete the course.
- English7766: Special Studies Seminar in Communication and
Emerging Technologies, can be taken for maximum of 6 s.h.
Between Fall 2000 and Spring 2004, many of our courses were
titled
English 6765: Special Studies Seminars in Technical & Professional
Communication.
As of Spring 2004, many of those courses offered as 6765 have their own
number.
You can access a letter on English Department letterhead,
containing
a list of topics and semester offered: [
as rtf file ] [
as pdf file ] I try to keep this letter up-to-date, but
I fall behind. Should this letter not be satisfactory
for your employer,
contact Sherry Southard, Lead Faculty, TPC.
- Transfer Courses ... Graduate
courses with non-English
prefixes, graduate
courses
completed at other universities and colleges, and non-degree courses
complete at ECU.
With approval of Director of
Graduate
Studies, you may complete 6 s.h. of graduate courses in a discipline
other
than English (with a non-English prefix) as long as the courses are
graduate level and part of a masters program
and/or
transfer 6 s.h. of graduate courses from a masters degree-granting
program
from another institution.
And, very important, the courses
cannot have been taken more
than
6 years ago during the semester that you receive your MA in English,
concentration
in Technical & Professional Communication.
If you want to complete
a
course at another university after you are enrolled in the MA in
English
program at ECU, the same guidelines apply, but, to ensure that the
course
will count toward your degree, you also must submit "Request for
Transfer
Credit" form, which you can access as
rtf file or pdf
file
. When you have had your transcript sent to ECU, send this completed
form electronically to Lead Faculty, TPC.
Up
to 3 non-degree courses (9 s.h.) can automatically count toward the MA
in English, once you are admitted to that program. You can count 2
additional non-degree courses (6 s.h.) by submitting the "request for
Transfer Credit" form available using the link in the previous
paragraph.
Note: you may not use courses completed as part of another
degree; courses can count toward only one degree.
