Curriculum - Literary & Cultural Studies Master Degree

The Literary & Cultural Studies (LCS) Concentration requires a minimum of 32 credit hours (96 units):

• 8 regular semester courses (12 units each) 
• Masters students are required to take Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies.
• No more than 2 of the 8 regular courses can be taken outside of LCS; only one of the two can be taken outside the CMU English Department. These courses may be a combination of:
  • up to two courses taught by LCS faculty or adjuncts
  • up to two courses taught by Rhetoric faculty or adjuncts, and no more than one course taken in another department in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences (with permission of that instructor), in an English or Cultural Studies course at the University of Pittsburgh (with the permission of the instructor), or as independent study (76-901).