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Department of English Graduate Student Handbook

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

University of North Carol ina Wilmington

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Contents

Contact Information for Faculty and Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

M .A . Degree Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Course Offerings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Graduate Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Comprehensive Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Thesis Guidelines and Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Application for Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Email Accounts and Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Mailboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Teaching Assistantships and Internships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Establishing Residency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Graduate English Association and Graduate Student Association . . . . . . . 11

Graduate Student Travel Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Graduate School Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Graduate Student Association Travel Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Resources and Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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G r a d u a t e F a c u l t y a n d S t a f f

Graduate Faculty: Contact Information and Research and Teaching Interests

Diana Ashe, Associate [email protected] and technical writing; rhetorical theory; and environmental and activist writing

Anthony Atkins, Associate Professor, [email protected] Professional and technical writing; visuality and rhetoric; technologies and composition pedagogies; classical and modern rhetorical theory

Mark Boren, [email protected] and 19th century American literature; romantic and Gothic literature; psychoanalysis; critical theory; literature and the visual arts

Maia Butler, Assistant [email protected] Women’s Literature, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Theory, and Literary Feminisms .

Lance Cummings, Assistant [email protected] and technical writing; comparative rhetorics; religious rhetorics; second language writing; digital rhetoric and writing; online writing instruction

Tiffany Gilbert, Associate Professor [email protected] and 21st century American literature, film, and popular culture, gender, race, and cultural studies, nineteenth century British literature, composition

Sarah Hallenbeck, Assistant Professor Writing [email protected] and technical writing; rhetoric and composition; feminist rhetorics; rhetorics of science and technology; English Education

Paula Kamenish, Associate [email protected] world literatures and cultures (especially European, but including Latin American, Asian, and West African); ethnic American literature

Nicholas Laudadio, Associate [email protected] studies; critical, cultural, and media theory; technology studies; popular music studies; musica and literature; science fiction and film

Jennifer Lozano, Assistant [email protected]/o literature and culture; women of color feminism; women and gender studies; digital media studies; “global” literature; and 20th and 21st century American literature and culture, especially literature of the Southwest .

Victor Malo, Assistant ProfessorLiterary Studies [email protected] education; young adult literature; quantitative research methods; politics of education

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Jeremy Tirrell, Associate Professor [email protected] and technology; professional writing; gaming and game theory

Lewis Walker, [email protected]; English Renaissance; Medieval English literature (Chaucer, drama); 18th century British literature; popular culture (comic strips)

Katherine Montwieler, Associate Professor, [email protected] 18th and 19th century British literature; women writers; feminist theory; women’s studies

Keith Newlin, [email protected] American literary naturalism and realism; 20th century American literature; early modernism; American drama; scholarly editing

Katie Peel, Associate [email protected] adult and children’s literature; Victorian literature; GLBTQ literature and theory; Holocaust literature; women’s studies

Alex Porco, Assistant [email protected] and poetic theory; Restoration and 18th century literature; cultural studies; hip-hop music and culture; American and Canadian poetry after 1945; theory and practice of the avant-garde

Anirban Ray, Assistant [email protected] literacy; rhetoric of technology

Colleen Reilly, Associate [email protected] Professional and technical writing; writing and research in digital spaces; science writing; writing program administration; distance education; workplace writing

Lee Schweninger, [email protected] literature to 1900; Native American literature; 20th century American literature; science, humanities, and society

Meghan Sweeney, Associate Professor Graduate [email protected]’s and adolescent literature; women’s studies; popular culture; American studies; literary criticism


M . A . D e g r e e R e q u i r e m e n t s

Course requirements for students entering the program in Fall 2010 or after:The MA degree in English requires a total of 36 hours of graduate coursework . These hours must be distributed according to the following guidelines:

• 30 of the required 36 hours must be taken in res idence .

• Al l s tudents are required to take Engl ish 501: I ntroduc t ion to Research Methods in Engl ish . I n addit ion, a l l s tudents are required to take e i ther Engl ish 502: I ntroduc t ion to L i terar y Theor y or Engl ish 552: R hetor ic and Culture . Beyond the t wo required courses, s tudents are encouraged to consult with the Graduate Coordinator to ta i lor their program of study to their personal and profess ional needs .

• Students may selec t a thes is or non-thesis opt ion . Students pursuing the thesis opt ion must complete 30 semester hours of graduate course work , register for ENG 599 thesis (6 hours) in their last t wo semesters, and present and defend a thesis , acceptable to the student ’s thes is committee, pr ior to graduat ion . Students pursuing the non-thesis opt ion wi l l complete 36 hours of graduate course work .

• As many as 6 of the 36 minimum hours may be t ransferred f rom another accredited inst i tut ion, subjec t to the approval of the Engl ish Depar tment ’s Graduate Coordinator . A student enrol led in the UNC W Engl ish Graduate Program who wishes to take one or more graduate Engl ish courses e lsewhere for graduate credit must obtain prior approval f rom the Graduate Coordinator and the Dean of the Graduate S chool .

• Students may take one course (3 hours) f rom outs ide the depar tment with the prior approval of the Graduate Coordinator .

• Students must successfully complete a qualifying written comprehensive examination . Normally the examination is taken in the third semester of full-time enrollment (see below for details) .

Transfer Credits Transfer of all graduate credits is subject to the approval of the Graduate Coordinator, the English Department Chair, and the Graduate School Dean, and must be requested in writing . Ordinarily, course work more than five years old is not accepted for transfer credit .

Degree Time LimitsAll degree requirements must be completed within five calendar years from the date of first registration in the graduate program . Students may apply to the English Department and Graduate School Dean to extend the degree time limit if special circumstances arise that warrant such an extension .


R e g i s t r a t i o n , C o u r s e I n f o r m a t i o n a n d G r a d i n g

Registration Al l s tudents must register for c lasses v ia SeaNet (https : //seanet .unc w .edu) . For registrat ion information, see the graduate school website (http://w w w .unc w .edu/gradschool/registrat ion .html) .

Pr ior to registrat ion each semester, s tudents who have quest ions about their schedules are encouraged to meet with the Graduate Coordinator . Students should a lso careful ly review the graduate course descr ipt ions on the Engl ish Depar tment website (http://unc w .edu/engl ish/graduate/descr ipt ions .html) and the l i s t of c lasses found in SeaNet .

Course O fferings Please obtain a Graduate Catalogue f rom the Graduate S chool ’s website (http://catalogue .unc w .edu/index .php) . The catalogue contains general course descr ipt ions for a l l of the Engl ish Depar tment graduate courses, as wel l as the degree requirements for the graduate programs, pol ic y statements, and a wealth of other useful information . Course topics var y, so please consult the c lass schedule at the Engl ish Depar tment website for speci f ic course information each semester .

Graduate students may register for an undergraduate course, in any given semester, even though they wi l l not earn any credits toward the M aster ’s degree for undergraduate courses . However, some students enter ing the program whose majors were not in Engl ish e lec t to take an undergraduate course or t wo to better prepare for success in our graduate courses .

Ful l - t ime status requires a minimum enrol lment of 9 credit hours . Teaching ass istants must be ful l t ime and complete 18 hours of graduate level coursework in their f i rst t wo semesters in order to qual i fy to teach in their second year and maintain their funding .

Students who have taken summer coursework af ter their f i rst year may take fewer credits in the fol lowing year . Teaching ass istants are expec ted to f in ish 36 credits in 2 years .

A graduate student may a lso be considered ful l - t ime when enrol led for fewer than 9 hours i f the student is enrol led in GRC 600 (cont inuous enrol lment) .


Half - t ime status begins with at least 4 .5 credit hours . Summer counts as one regular term . Students in a graduate degree program are permitted to register for no more than 15 hours in any one semester but are discouraged f rom register ing for more than 9 hours of graduate coursework .

Continuous Enrollment Any student engaged in thesis research and/or wr i t ing that involves univers i t y facult y or fac i l i t ies must be registered dur ing the semester or summer sess ion in which they are us ing facult y t ime or fac i l i t ies, whether they are in res idence or not . This registrat ion may be for 1 to 6 thesis hours ; however, i f the 6 thesis hours have a l ready been completed and the student is not enrol led in other courses, they must register for “cont inuous enrol lment ,” GRC 600 . A student may not enrol l in GRC 600 for more than t wo terms . Students must be enrol led in a course or in GRC 600 dur ing the semester in which they plan to graduate .

G raduate G rading Grades for students enrol led in graduate courses must be one of the fol lowing: A (c lear excel lence) ; A- ; B+; B (ent i re ly sat is fac tor y) ; B- ; C+; C (minimal ly acceptable) ; F ( fa i l ) ; S (sat is fac tor y progress on thesis ) ; U (unsat is fac tor y progress on thesis ) ; I (work incomplete) ; WP (withdraw pass ing) . P lease note that on the graduate level , a “B ” i s a ver y good grade, ref lec t ing a sol id ly competent per formance .

A student receiv ing any grade of “F” i s inel igible to cont inue in graduate school . A student receiv ing grades of “C ” in any three courses is inel igible to cont inue in graduate school .

When specia l c i rcumstances warrant , s tudents declared inel igible may be re instated upon pet i t ion by the student to the Dean of the Graduate School . Any re instatement is provis ional in that an addit ional grade below “B ” wi l l again result in the student ’s inel igibi l i t y .


Comprehensive Examination, Fal l 2016

I n Spr ing 2015, the graduate facult y revised the format for the MA comprehensive exam in order to better meet programmatic goals . Below, you’ l l f ind information that you need to k now regarding the reading l i s t and exam format .

G o a l s f o r t h e co m p r e h e n s i ve e xa m Our exam is des igned to a l low students to demonstrate that they can do the fol lowing:

• Place and examine tex ts within theoret ical , cr i t ica l , and/or h istor ical contex ts

• Wr ite c lear ly and persuasively in response to quest ions about tex ts f rom var ious genres

• Use evidence in a way that i s logical , organized, and ethical .

I d e a B e h i n d t h e C o m p r e h e n s i ve E xa m i n a t i o n

At UNC W, ever y master ’s candidate must pass a comprehensive examinat ion cover ing his or her f ie ld of study . What do we in the Engl ish Depar tment hope that you’ l l gain by doing so? Whi le there is no such thing as a t ruly comprehensive reading l i s t , facult y have chosen tex ts that have ongoing cr i t ica l and cultural s igni f icance within the f ie ld of Engl ish studies as i t i s broadly conceived . Dur ing the exam, you may be cal led upon to expla in , analyze, synthesize, and make connec t ions bet ween and among these tex ts . These sk i l l s wi l l ser ve wel l as you f in ish the program and consider future career paths . Moreover, th is exam format gives you a chance to be involved in the creat ion of the reading l i s t : in addit ion to the l i s t a l l s tudents within a cohor t wi l l share, you wi l l have a chance to selec t tex ts that wi l l be useful for your ongoing studies .

Re a d i n g L i s t

Graduate students wi l l read 20 tex ts chosen by committee and 5 tex ts that they selec t

themselves to complement the reading l i s t . Both the l i s t of 20 and the l i s t of 5 may be in any genre, inc luding poetr y, essays, novels , shor t stor ies, among others, and f rom any sub -disc ipl ine in Engl ish studies . Each graduate student should selec t h is/her 5 t i t les in conjunc t ion with a mentor or mentors ; he or she wi l l then submit these t i t les v ia e -mai l to the graduate coordinator for approval at least 60 days b efore tak ing the exam.

The reading l i s t t ypical ly var ies l i t t le f rom year to year, a l though there may be changes . The new l ist for the fa l l semester wi l l be avai lable on the website by Februar y of that same year . Students wi l l need to purchase the precise edit ions of the tex ts l i s ted . O ther tex ts wi l l be avai lable v ia PDF .

W h o S h o u l d Ta ke t h e E xa m ?

Students wi l l be e l igible to take the comprehensive examinat ion af ter complet ing at least 18 hours of coursework . Students must pass the exam before graduat ing .

Comprehensive Exam, Thesis Guidelines and Process, and Application for Graduation


W h e n a n d w h e r e w i l l t h e e xa m b e o f f e r e d ?

Students should e lec t to take the exam in e i ther the fa l l or spr ing semester . The exam wi l l be four hours given in a computer c lassroom on campus and proc tored by the Graduate Coordinator . I n the fa l l semester, the exam wi l l be given on the third Fr iday af ternoon in S eptember . I n the spr ing semester, the exam wi l l be administered on the f i rst Fr iday af ternoon in Februar y .

Fo r m a t

Students wi l l be a l lowed to br ing a l l reading l i s t tex ts inc luding PDF pr int outs to the comprehensive exam . These tex ts may be annotated, but no addit ional books or papers should be brought . Students may a lso br ing a wr i t ing utensi l for tak ing notes ; scrap paper wi l l be provided .

The exam wi l l consist of three prompts; s tudents must answer a l l three prompts thoroughly for their exam to be scored .

•Two prompts wi l l be focused s ingle -tex t quest ions AND/OR general quest ions that ask students to choose tex ts to make an argument .

•One prompt wi l l ask students to account for the selec t ion of their 5 addit ional tex ts . I n this response, students should l ink their chosen tex ts to the broader l i s t .

P r e p a ra t i o n

Students should read and study a l l tex ts on the reading l i s t . The exam quest ions wi l l prompt students to contex tual ize the tex ts by demonstrat ing an awareness of their h istor ica l , theoret ical , and/or cr i t ica l contex ts .

Students might prepare to answer the quest ions on the exam by reading casebooks, cr i t ica l edit ions, and/or scholarship about the tex ts . I n addit ion, doing some reading about the per iod in which the tex t i s wr i t ten wi l l a lso be useful . Students might consult the histor ical introduc t ions in standard anthologies for this purpose .

W h o G ra d e s t h e E xa m ?

Three examiners wi l l be randomly selec ted f rom members of the graduate facult y who are teaching courses in the current school year .

Fi n a l Re s u l t s

The three essays are graded Pass/Fai l by the examinat ion committee, with a consensus of t wo members needed for a decis ion . Grading is done anonymously, with student names removed f rom papers . Students wi l l be informed in wr i t ing by the Graduate Coordinator about whether or not they have passed the examinat ion . I n accordance with Graduate S chool pol ic y, a student who does not pass must wait unt i l the nex t semester before retak ing the examinat ion . No student may take the exam a thi rd t ime without permiss ion of the Graduate Coordinator, the Depar tment Chair, and the Dean of the Graduate S chool .

Unless there are charges of rac ia l , sexual , or other forms of d iscr iminat ion, or charges of improper procedures, which a l legedly have led to a fa i led examinat ion, students may not appeal unt i l they have retaken the exam . Appeals made af ter a second fa i lure of the examinat ion wi l l be handled in keeping with pol ic ies establ ished by the Graduate Counci l and approved by the Dean of the Graduate S chool and the Provost .

Thesis G uidelines and Pro cess

Students can e lec t to pursue a thesis or non-thesis opt ion; the default opt ion is non-thesis . Students who decide to wr i te a thes is should fol low the guidel ines below .

Thesis Committee

Students should begin to think about developing a focus for their thes is and conf igur ing the thesis committee dur ing their second semester of coursework . Af ter consult ing with a number of graduate facult y and formulat ing a focus that can


be ar t iculated br ief ly in wr i t ing, students should request to meet with a member of the graduate facult y and ask them to ser ve as the chair of their thes is advisor y committee . Because the chair wi l l be the student ’s mentor dur ing the wr i t ing of the thesis , s tudents should selec t a chair with whom they have a good work ing re lat ionship and f rom whom they can receive construc t ive feedback .

I n consultat ion with the thesis d i rec tor, the student wi l l se lec t t wo addit ional members of the thesis advisor y committee; one member may be f rom outs ide the Engl ish Depar tment, i f appropr iate . I f a student changes his/her area of concentrat ion in the process of prepar ing the thesis , a new thesis d i rec tor, who wi l l ac t as chair of the committee, should be found . To formal ize this change, students need to complete the requis i te Change of Thesis Direc tor form, which can be found on the MA program website (http://w w w .unc w .edu/engl ish/graduate/thesis .html) .

The thesis committee wi l l read and comment on draf ts of the thesis and administer the oral defense of the thesis . The decis ion of the committee concerning the student ’s per formance dur ing the oral defense is f inal .

Thesis Proposal The thesis should be proposed as soon as poss ible af ter pass ing the comprehensive examinat ion; i t may be proposed sooner, i f the topic is def in i te and the thesis advisor y committee bel ieves doing so is appropr iate .

The proposal should be developed in consultat ion with the chair and thesis advisor y committee; the thesis advisor y committee wi l l s igni fy i ts approval of the proposal by s igning a cover sheet and giv ing a copy of the approved proposal and s igned cover sheet to the Graduate Coordinator, who wi l l p lace i t in the student ’s f i le . The cover sheet can be obtained f rom the depar tment website : http ://w w w .unc w .edu/engl ish/graduate/thesis .html

The format of the proposal i s as fo l lows:

1 . Proposals are general ly three to f ive pages long and include a statement of the research quest ion; a descr ipt ion of the theoret ical approach and/or methodologies employed; and some indicat ion of the

ant ic ipated struc ture/organizat ion of the f in ished thesis . The proposal should a lso st ipulate the form that the projec t wi l l take . Final ly, the proposal should expla in to readers c lear ly and succinc t ly what the student hopes to demonstrate through wr it ing the thesis .

2 . A work ing bibl iography of appropr iate length that inc ludes re levant secondar y as wel l as pr imar y sources .

3 . A t imel ine of s igni f icant mi lestones in the research and wr it ing process and the approximate dates of their complet ion .

Writing, Revising, Defending and Submitting the ThesisI n general , s tudents wr i te their theses dur ing their last t wo semesters in the MA program . Dur ing each semester, s tudents should register for three hours of ENG 599: Thesis . ENG 599 should be t reated as a regular course and students should spend s igni f icant t ime each week doing research and wr it ing in order to complete their projec ts in a t imely fashion .

I n conjunc t ion with developing their thes is proposal , s tudents should develop a schedule for complet ing draf ts of sec t ions of the thesis . Keeping to this schedule a ids in successful complet ion of the projec t . Thesis d i rec tors should respond to draf ts of the sec t ions of the thesis as they are wr i t ten, and students should be prepared to address the chair ’s response through s igni f icant revis ions, which may require rewr it ing, fur ther research, and even reconsiderat ion of some por t ions of their arguments . Students should not consider f i rst vers ions of their thes is sec t ions as f inal vers ions . I n some cases, other members of the advisor y committee may want to see ear l ier draf ts of sec t ions . Students should work with a l l members of their committee to learn and meet their expec tat ions in this regard .

The length of the thesis should be agreed upon bet ween the student and their chair . Theses general ly range bet ween 50-70 pages in length .

Once the thesis has been draf ted and revised, students should give the revised vers ions to the other t wo members of the committee .


The committee should receive the revised draf t no later than a month before the end of c lasses in the semester in which the student plans to graduate . Because the readers may have fur ther suggest ions for rethink ing and revis ion, fa i lure to a l low them ample t ime to respond to the thesis may result in the delay of a student ’s ora l defense and graduat ion .

A draf t of the thesis must be submitted to the Graduate School for formatt ing approval , together with a Format Approval Sheet ( found at http://w w w .unc w .edu/gradschool/thesis .html) ; the deadl ine each semester i s announced at the Graduate School website, usual ly the end of March for Spr ing graduates and the middle of November for December graduates . This draf t submiss ion is checked for proper formatt ing; content is not reviewed at this t ime .

A month pr ior to the end of the semester, s tudents should a lso schedule a date and t ime for their thes is defenses in consultat ion with their chairs and advisor y committees . The student or the chair should formal ly reser ve a room for the defense with the help of the of f ice staf f . This date should adhere to the Graduate S chool ’s deadl ine for complet ion of ora l defenses, which usual ly st ipulates the f i rst of December for Fal l graduates and mid-Apr i l for Spr ing graduates .

Students should give their advisor y committees a c lean and revised copy of the thesis at least t wo weeks before the thesis defense . Assuming that the thesis defense is successful , the student wi l l have a week or t wo to complete addit ional revis ions before the Graduate School ’s f inal deadl ine for submiss ion of approved theses .

I f the chair or advisor y committee members indicate that the thesis i s not defensible, they may ask the student to do fur ther revis ions and postpone the defense unt i l the nex t semester . Schedul ing the defense does not imply that the thesis i s ready to defend or imply a requirement for the committee members to s ign- off on the thesis . The chair and the committee should hold the defense only when the projec t i s complete . Graduate facult y should not be pressured by the student or the student ’s chair to s ign of f on a thesis that they do not bel ieve is complete .

The student ’s per formance at the thesis defense is evaluated by the committee and fac tors into their assessment of the successful complet ion of the work for the MA degree . The format for the presentat ion and the defense should be developed in conjunc t ion with the student , their chair, and the advisor y committee . The decis ion of the committee concerning the student ’s per formance dur ing the oral defense is f inal .


Email Accounts and Contac t information

Emai l i s the most re l iable means of staying in touch with col leagues and for gett ing information about deadl ines, impor tant announcements, and upcoming events f rom the Depar tment of Engl ish and the univers i t y . Students should check their UNC W emai l accounts regular ly so as not to miss impor tant information .

Please give Donna Car l ton in the main Engl ish of f ice your local address, UNC W emai l address, and phone number and not i fy her of changes in your contac t information .

UNC W O ne Card

Each graduate student wi l l receive a UNC W OneCard at or ientat ion (a photo of your choice can be submitted us ing the UNC W One Card onl ine submiss ion opt ion at http://myseapor t .unc w .edu) . The One Card is not only your ID, i t a lso a l lows you access to campus fac i l i t ies, univers i t y ser v ices and events, the l ibrar y, meal p lans or food dol lars , f ree r ides on Seahawk Shutt le and WAVE buses, and much more besides . See http://unc w .edu/onecard/ for more information .

M ailb oxes

Each graduate student has a mai lbox within the Depar tment of Engl ish located in the corr idor behind the Facult y Commons . I f s tudents cannot f ind their mai lbox or have not been ass igned a mai lbox, they should not i fy the of f ice staf f as soon as poss ible .

Students should check their mai lboxes f requently . Any information that does not go out over emai l wi l l be placed in the depar tmental mai lbox; in addit ion, the mai lbox area is a s i te for the post ing of ca l ls for papers and information on new course of fer ings . Graduate students do not have mai lboxes in the War wick Center ; a l l graduate student mai l wi l l come to the Depar tment .

Teaching Assistantships and I nternships

The Graduate S chool general ly gives the Engl ish Depar tment e leven Teaching Ass istantships for the academic year . These ass istantships are awarded by the Depar tment ’s Graduate Committee to Engl ish MA students on a competit ive bas is .

For students who are not TAs but would l ike to acquire teaching exper ience, some graduate teaching internships are avai lable at educat ional inst i tut ions in the Wi lmington area for second-year students who have earned at least 18 hours of graduate course work .

O ther k inds of internships are a lso avai lable to students . Students may earn three credits for a one -semester graduate internship, and some internships a lso carr y a st ipend . The Graduate Coordinator and I nternship Coordinator wi l l work with interested students to decide on an appropr iate internship venue and super visor . Students should meet with the Coordinator wel l before the semester in which they hope to register for an internship . The necessar y forms for register ing for an internship are avai lable f rom the Graduate Coordinator .

I n addit ion to Teaching Ass istantships, UNC W has a var iet y of Graduate Ass istantships avai lable through the Div is ion of Student Affa i rs . These ass istantships are usual ly 20 hours per week and usual ly involve work ing f rom August 1 through M ay 30; for more information, contac t the Div is ion of Student Affa i rs at 962-3117 or see the Graduate School website under Current Students . Employment

The Career S er vices O ff ice in the Univers i t y Union has a web s i te containing on- and off -campus employment information (http://w w w .unc w .edu/career/ ) . Human Resources a lso publ ishes on- campus job openings on their website (http://w w w .unc w .edu/hr/employment .html) .

G e n e r a l I n f o r m a t i o n


Before you seek and accept employment, keep in mind that tak ing three graduate courses in a semester i s required for fu l l - t ime status and is ver y t ime - consuming .

Graduate students should a lso a l low themselves suf f ic ient t ime to take par t in campus ac t iv i t ies, share ideas with other students and with professors outs ide of the c lassroom, use the l ibrar y, attend lec tures, and par t ic ipate in conferences . Par t ic ipat ing in these ac t iv i t ies becomes more di f f icult for students who work long hours of f campus . To get the most out of your graduate educat ion at UNC W, we recommend that you not commit to more than 20 hours of employment i f you are tak ing three c lasses per semester .

E stablishing Residenc y

Graduate students who move here f rom out of state speci f ica l ly to go to school are l ikely to be considered out- of-state students dur ing their graduate school careers . I n order to demonstrate their intent ion to remain in Nor th Carol ina and become a res ident , thus qual i fy ing for in-state tuit ion, students need to begin to establ ish res idenc y immediately by doing the fol lowing:

1 . Conver t your automobi le registrat ion to Nor th Carol ina

2 . Obtain a Nor th Carol ina Dr iver ’s L icense (or NC Ident i f icat ion Card f rom the Dr iver ’s L icense of f ice)

3 . Register to vote in Nor th Carol ina and vote when poss ible

4 . L ist your personal proper t y at the New Hanover Count y Tax O ff ice for taxat ion

5 . Fi le a Nor th Carol ina tax return as a res ident at the nex t appropr iate t ime

6 . Conver t your bank ing, c lub/organizat ion membership, etc . , to Nor th Carol ina

These ac t ions begin the one -year (12 month) wait ing per iod to atta in res idenc y . The Graduate S chool ’s website of fers in- depth information on the res idenc y process (http://w w w .unc w .edu/gradschool/ instateres idenc y .html) .

G raduate English Asso ciation and G raduate Student Asso ciation

There are t wo campus associat ions that ser ve graduate students . The Graduate Engl ish Associat ion (GEA) is open only to Depar tment of Engl ish graduate students . The GEA holds regular meet ings, readings, and socia l events . The GEA may a lso sponsor conferences and work with facult y to develop presentat ions and workshops re levant to graduate students . New students wi l l receive information f rom GEA off icers about how to jo in and about the locat ion and t imes of meet ings and events .

The Graduate Student Associat ion (GSA) is dedicated to improving the l ives of a l l s tudents seek ing a graduate degree at UNC W . The GSA works to make the concerns and interests of the graduate student populat ion a dr iv ing force in the univers i t y . The GSA represents the general interests of graduate students, not indiv idual depar tments . The GSA has been responsible for the creat ion of the graduate computer lab in the l ibrar y and sponsors a program to br ing speakers to campus to discuss graduate student concerns . M ore information about the GSA can be found on their website (http://student .unc w .edu/org/gsa/) .

G raduate Student Travel G rants

There are several t ypes of funding avai lable to help suppor t graduate -student t ravel to present papers at profess ional conferences . I n general , rec ipients are not permitted to “double - dip,” i .e . , s tudents may not use more than one of the fol lowing t ypes of grants to cover a par t icular t r ip .



Resources and Contac t I nformation

The Career Center Fisher Univers i t y Union, Room 2035 962-3174 http://w w w .unc w .edu/career/

Graduate Computer Lab and Study Room R andal l L ibrar y, 2nd Floor

The Graduate School James Hal l , 2nd Floor 962-3202 Staf f l i s t ing: http ://w w w .unc w .edu/gradschool/ contac ts .html

Office of the Registrar James Hal l , 1st Floor 962-3125 http://w w w .unc w .edu/reg/

Office of Scholarships & Financial Aid K ing Hal l , 2nd Floor 962-3177 http://w w w .unc w .edu/f inaid/

Student Health Center DePaolo Hal l , 2nd f loor 962-3280 http://w w w .unc w .edu/stuaff/healthser vices/

Student Affiars Counseling Center DePaolo Hal l , 2nd f loor 962-3746 http://w w w .unc w .edu/stuaff/counsel ing/

Information Technology Systems Division Hoggard Hal l , 1st Floor 962-4357 (962-HELP) http://w w w .unc w .edu/i tsd/

TAC ( Te c h n o l o g y A s s s i s t a n ce C e n t e r ) R andal l L ibrar y, 1st Floor tac@unc w .edu

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