Degree Completion Schedule

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Students Admitted Without MA Degree

Year 1 (Fall) Year 1 (Spring) Year 2 (Fall) Year 2 (Spring)
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, incl. 1 of 4 core courses: Gk./Lat. Hist. of Lat. Lit., or Syntax and Style)
  • Diagnostic exams in Greek and Latin
  • Modern language exam (fall or spring)
  • Teaching
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, incl. 1 core course)
  • Teaching
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, incl. 1 core course)
  • Submit application to candidacy for MA
  • Teaching
  • 2nd modern language exam (fall or spring)
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, incl. 1 core course)
  • Teaching
  • 4th-semester review
  • MA project completed (summer)
Year 3 (Fall) Year 3 (Spring) Year 4 (Fall) Year 4 (Spring)
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit)
  • Teaching
  • General exams: Latin or Greek exam
  • General exams: major or minor field
  • Submit application to candidacy for PhD
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit)
  • Teaching
  • General exams: Latin or Greek exam
  • General exams: major or minor field
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit)
  • Teaching
  • 7th-semester review
  • Dissertation colloquium and research
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit)
  • Teaching
  • Dissertation research

Total Credit Hours

  • MA: 30 (Should be completed by end of 4th semester)
  • PhD: 72 (Should be completed by end of 8th semester)

Students Admitted With MA Degree

Students entering with an MA degree:

  • Are not required to submit an MA thesis paper.
  • Like students entering without an MA, must take two modern language exams regardless of whether such exams were passed elsewhere.
  • Must be finished with exams and coursework by the end of the second year.
Year 1 (Fall) Year 1 (Spring) Year 2 (Fall) Year 2 (Spring)
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, suggested to incl. 1 of 4 core courses: Gk./Lat. Hist. of Lat. Lit., or Syntax and Style)
  • Teaching
  • General exams: Latin or Greek exam
  • General exams: major or minor field
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, suggested to incl. 1 core course)
  • Teaching
  • General exams: Latin or Greek exam
  • General exams: major or minor field
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, suggested to incl. 1 core course)
  • Teaching
  • Submit application to candidacy for PhD
  • 3 courses (9 hours credit, suggested to incl. 1 core course)
  • Teaching
  • Dissertation research
Year 3 (Fall) Year 3 (Spring)    
  • Dissertation colloquium and research
  • Fifth semester review
  • Dissertation research
    

 

Total Credit Hours

  • PhD: 72 (Should be completed by end of 4th semester)