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Marnie Leonard (970) 491-2403 Marnie.Leonard@colostate.edu

Graduate Study

E600.1, Research Methods and Theory: Literature

This course, which is required for students earning an M.A. in literature, offers an intense immersion experience in the library and in on-line databases.  By following trails blazed by your own curiosity and interests, you will grow proficient in advanced research techniques and become familiar with typical challenges, patterns, and rewards of this kind of intellectual exploration.  You will learn a great deal about resources that are important to literary studies and experiment with various ways of formulating, broadening, narrowing, and developing research and writing projects.  You will learn from class visitors about various jobs that may result from MA (and sometimes PhD) work.  You will also take part in workshops on professional writing tasks like bibliographic annotations, proposals for conference papers and MA theses and projects, resumes and job application letters, and course proposals and syllabi.

The course is normally offered in the fall semester.  We recommend that you take it in your first year, so that what you learn here can strengthen the work in the rest of your time here.  If you take it in your second year, it will help you focus and begin your research for your thesis or final project.

This information is not intended to replace your advisor or the information in the CSU General Catalog, the Class Schedule, or the Department Checksheets.

Contact us: Through the mail at 1773 Campus Delivery, 359 Eddy Hall, Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1773. On the phone at (970) 491-6428. By email at english@lamar.colostate.edu.

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