All Ph.D. students are required to pass a qualifying
examination.
Students may not take the qualifying examination until
they have
•completed the required Ph.D. coursework,
•satisfied the foreign language requirement
• enrolled for English 697 (Readings for the
Qualifying Examination).
Students may proceed with the dissertation after the
dissertation committee has been appointed and the dissertation
proposal has been accepted by the committee and approved
by the department.
The dissertation itself must be an investigation of a
substantial critical or scholarly topic. A final oral
defense of the dissertation is required.
Further information on the department’s graduate
programs is contained in the Guide to Graduate Study available
from the Department of English.
Students must complete their work within one year of
the schedule set out in the Guide to Graduate Study.
