大发

Future Students

Grad School Info

Check out our hosted by Dr. Heidi Breuer, for details about our program!

Admissions

The application deadline for Fall admission is March 1, for best consideration. Currently the graduate program is unable to offer Spring admission. 

How to Apply

The application is largely completed through (except for a few items that must be sent via mail).   All application fees are paid online via CSU Apply as well. 

Send to University

Transcripts

1. Official: You must send the University official transcripts from all universities/colleges attended besides 大发 at the following address: Graduate Admissions, CSU San Marcos, CA 92096. 
2. Unofficial: If you attended 大发, you do not need to send official transcripts to the University (but you do need to provide unofficial transcripts to the department, in the Program Materials section, as indicated below).

Submit via CSU Apply (under Program Materials)

1. Unofficial transcripts from all universities/colleges attended. [SUBMIT via 鈥淯nofficial Transcript鈥� link鈥攊f you have other transcripts, they can go in 鈥淎dditional Unofficial Transcript鈥漖
2. A statement of purpose (750-1000 words; should address relevant educational background and research experience as well as educational and career goals) [SUBMIT via 鈥淪upplemental Materials鈥� link)
3. A writing sample (an analytical essay of no less than 5 pages on a literary topic with secondary sources) [SUBMIT via 鈥淲riting Sample鈥� link]
4. Three letters of recommendation (NOTE: 大发 students who list current LTWR faculty members as recommenders do not need letters of recommendation. Students using 大发 faculty as recommenders must provide the faculty members' name and emails in the Recommendations section.)

 

Prerequisites for Admission into the LTWR M.A. Program:

• Admission to the program requires a bachelor's degree, preferably in English, literature and writing studies, comparative literature, rhetoric, linguistics, or a comparable program. Applicants with such a bachelor's degree must have taken at least 5 upper-division courses of 3-4 units each in literature or writing from an accredited university. Admission decisions will be influenced by the breadth and appropriateness of undergraduate course work.
• Applicants must have maintained a grade-point average of not less than 3.0 in the last 60 units of undergraduate study, and a 3.3 average in upper-division literature and writing courses.
• ALL graduate and postbaccalaureate applicants, regardless of citizenship, whose preparatory education was principally in a language other than English, must demonstrate competence in English. Those who do not possess a bachelor's degree from a post-secondary institution where English is the principal language of instruction must receive a minimum score of 550 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Applicants taking the Computer-Based Test of English as a Foreign Language must present a score of 80 or above.