Narrative Studies, MA

The MA in narrative studies is a comprehensive program that explores narrative and storytelling across various cultures and historical periods.

With an emphasis on teaching and research, the program includes coursework that encourages students to pursue the transdisciplinary inquiry.

The degree program primes graduates for critical and eloquent engagement with the world beyond the university. Graduates are equally prepared to become candidates for further academic studies, to advance their careers as area educators in the language arts, and to step into one of the many professions that value creativity, critical thinking, and highly skilled communication, including teaching, writing, online publishing, and editing.

Professionals with expertise in the narrative are in high demand across many sectors and industries, including publishing, media, entertainment, marketing, and politics. Skills in crafting and interpreting narratives are valuable to businesses and institutions that communicate, entertain and educate.

Career examples include:

copywriter

creative writer

editor

freelance writer

high school teacher

Arizona State University College of Integrative Sciences and Arts (ASU CISA) is a diverse college where disciplines converge, and we emphasize a collaborative approach to learning, teaching, and discovery. We have a pulse on today's issues and tomorrow and offer you the flexibility to create a degree you love.

We offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs that are flexible, innovative, and many have an applied emphasis.

Our faculty engage in research, clinical and creative activities that support knowledge development, applied practice, and involve students in discovery.

We are guided by the principles of educational access, student success, and interdisciplinary inquiry.We collaborate and partner with every college at Arizona State University through general studies support, interdisciplinary studies concentration areas, student success and retention efforts, and access initiatives.

If you have completed some community college or university credits and are looking to finish a bachelor's expediently, you will also find degrees that are an especially efficient choice for returning adults.

We offer majors and solid foundation courses across the sciences and math, the humanities, and the social sciences — including degrees in specialty fields such as technical communication and user experience, sustainable horticulture, natural resource ecology, veterinary medicine, and counseling psychology.

No matter what degree you choose, you'll develop as a master learner, interdisciplinarity, and solutions-maker, ready to apply your knowledge and skills to serve the greater community and world.

You'll enjoy a learning environment that emphasizes innovative teaching, applied experiences, and active engagement in projects, opportunities to develop your full potential, residential living options to support your success.