ENGL 6304 Dissertation Prospectus

This course will prepare students to plan, research, and set up an agenda for completing the dissertation. Students can bring a course project to further develop it into a book-length project or develop an original research topic. These studies must respond to contemporary trends in English studies through a literature review surrounding the proposed dissertation topic. By the end of the course, students will produce a dissertation prospectus that will pinpoint a gap in current scholarship, develop the table of contents, and defend the prospectus orally.