Need an UL English course? Harvard has one cheap!

[alexf.1990]

I am trying to gather 18 graduate credits in English in order to teach at the Community College level.  If I could figure out the funding, the Masters in English through HES looks awesome!  However, these classes are a great first step and very affordable!

If you complete all 5 of these courses, you could finish an ALM in English for 7-10k. The HES Grant gives you half all of courses and a free course during the summer. You'd only have 7 courses left. If you took two summers to finish, you'd only have to pay for 5 courses at half price. There is a thesis component to this ALM. I'm not sure what that process looks like. There's also an American Literature and Culture grad certificate that these courses count towards. In order to get it, you have to take two of these courses and two social science courses.

So these poetry courses should take about 5-7 hours per week? You just have a weekly quiz, discussion, then two papers, and a final? How was the paper? Was it a research paper or a personal reflection?

I don't understand the grant, so can you help me understand where that would cut these costs?  This is just spit-ballin, not sure it's 100% accurate

5 English Poetry courses @ $200 (assuming the 5th is offered) $1000
Proseminar (spring 19 online live w/1 weekend) $2700 + travel
Gen elective 1 *summer online w/1 weekend $2700 + travel
Gen elective 2 online $2700
English seminar online $2700
Crafting Thesis online $2700
Thesis 1 $2700
Thesis 2 $2700

The HES Grant gives you half off all courses and a free course during the summer. You have to pay full price for the Proseminar because the grant doesn't kick in until you're admitted into the program. The cost would look something like this:

Proseminar:                        2750 + travel
Two free summer courses: 0
4 Courses at 50% off:         5500 + travel
5 Poetry Courses:               1000

Total:   9250 + travel expenses

Tuition increased by $50 for this upcoming year. It seems to increase by $50-100 per year, so I'd factor that into your costs.