PURPOSE
Before taking the doctoral qualifying exam, Ph.D. students must demonstrate competence in reading literary scholarship and criticism in a language other than English. The language is chosen for the relevance of scholarship published in that language to the student's primary field.
PROCESS
Students may satisfy the requirement by one of the following means:
- Exam: passing a foreign language proficiency examination offered twice every semester and administered by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Coursework: satisfactorily completing a three-credit, semester-long foreign language reading knowledge course offered by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
English Department
