The goal is to provide a broad overview of the changing field of English studies and of the place that each student's interest occupies within that field. The four concentrations from which the students may choose are:

• Creative Writing
• Composition and Rhetoric
• Cultural Studies in Asia/Pacific
• Literary Studies in English

Together, these four concentrations provide a rough map of the terrain of contemporary English studies, and we therefore begin the description of our M.A. program with a brief account of their different aims and methods.