Dear Graduate Students, Preregistration for Fall 2023 English MA courses will take place via email (MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu>) next week, Monday, March 20, through Wednesday, March 22. Please carefully read the attached (and pasted below) preregistration instructions and FAQs, which includes breakdowns of program requirements. Also attached are our Fall 2023 course offerings and descriptions. FYI, if you are planning to take ENGL 791 and/or 795 in Fall 2023, we will be sending out more info on how to sign up for those after preregistration has ended. You will register for those classes later in the term. If classes are filled when you register, you can contact us to be placed on that wait lists for the classes you want to enroll in. As always, please email us both if you have any questions or need advising or support. Hope you're all taking care! Best, Bill and Hillary, your Directors of Graduate Studies in English Preregistration for English MA Courses Fall 2023 Preregistration for Spring 2023 English MA courses will take place Monday, March 29, through Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Matriculated MA, MAT, and MS Ed students in good academic standing (i.e., minimum average 3.0 GPA and no outstanding INCs) are eligible for and strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to sign up early for classes. Accelerated students who will still be undergraduates in Fall 2022 and are in good academic standing are also eligible to preregister for English MA courses. Please carefully read the following preregistration instructions and FAQs, including a breakdown of program requirements for MA, MAT, MS Ed, and Accelerated students. Fall 2022 course descriptions are attached separately. Note: the majority of our graduate English courses in Fall 2022 will be meeting in person, with a few fully online courses (ENGL 636, 733, and 781-01). If you have any questions or need advising, please email the current Directors of Graduate Studies in English—Bill Orchard (william.orchard@qc.cuny.edu) and Hillary Miller (hillary.miller@qc.cuny.edu). Instructions for Preregistration via Email During the Spring 2023 preregistration period of March 20 to March 22 only, please email MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu with the following info: 1. Your full name 2. Your program (MA, MAT, MS Ed, or Accelerated) 3. Your 8-digit CUNY ID# 4. The courses you’d like to register for, with their 4- or 5-digit class codes (e.g., ENGL 636, code 25703) Students may preregister for up to 3 spring courses. Preregistration requests will be processed within 24 hours and in the order they are received. You will receive a confirmation email once you’ve been registered, asking you to log onto CUNYfirst and double-check your schedule. Preregistration FAQs Who is eligible to preregister for English MA classes? All matriculated MA, MAT, and MS Ed students, as well as Accelerated English BA/MA students who will still be undergraduates in Spring 2023, are eligible to preregister for courses as long as they have an active CUNYfirst account and are in good academic standing. If your GPA has fallen below 3.0 or if you’re carrying incompletes on your record from a previous semester, you should seek advising with one of the Directors of Graduate Studies, Bill Orchard or Hillary Miller, before trying to preregister. Accelerated students who are planning to graduate with their BAs in Spring 2023 semester will not yet be able to register for fall graduate courses. Only once their BA graduation has been approved and their status in the English MA program has officially been activated on CUNYfirst can they then register for their Fall 2022 MA courses. Please contact the Directors of Graduate Studies with any questions or for advising. If you have any holds on your CUNYfirst account for any reason, however unwarranted, CUNYfirst will not allow you to be registered for classes. Please check your account before the start of the preregistration period and make sure that any holds have been resolved. Non-matriculated/non-degree students are not eligible to preregister and must wait to register themselves during their registration appointment period on CUNYfirst. Can I take a course with the same number twice for credit? Courses currently titled “Studies in...” may be repeated for credit as long as the specific course topics and texts are substantially different. For example, ENGL 681, 726, 733 and 735 may be repeated for credit. ENGL 781 (Special Seminars) may also be repeated for credit, as long as the specific course topics and texts are substantially different. ENGL 636, 638, 701, 702, and 703 cannot be repeated for credit. What are my English course requirements? For MA students (30 credits): * ENGL 701 * ENGL 636 * 7 open electives (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) * ENGL 791 (thesis essay) For Accelerated BA/MA students (up to 9 credits; or up to 6 credits if in the English Honors Seminar): * ENGL 701 * ENGL 636 * 1 elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) For MAT students (9 credits): • 1 pre-1900 elective * 1 open elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) * ENGL 781 For MS Ed students (15 credits): * ENGL 702 (currently only offered in spring semesters) or ENGL 703 * 2 pre-1900 electives * 1 open elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) * ENGL 781 For MAT and MS Ed students, what courses fulfill the pre-1900 requirement? To fulfill the pre-1900 requirement, MAT and MS Ed students can take ENGL 726 in Fall 2023. Can I preregister for ENGL 791, the thesis course, or ENGL 795, the independent study course? English 791 and English 795 require additional advising and paperwork, so these are not courses for which you can preregister. The Directors of Graduate Studies will announce more information about how to sign up for these courses after the preregistration period has ended.