FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

All graduate students in English are required to demonstrate reading proficiency in a foreign language, or, in the case of students in the Ph.D. program, two foreign languages. It is strongly recommended that students fulfill their foreign language requirement(s) as soon as possible. The M.A. thesis may not be defended until the foreign language requirement is satisfied; doctoral students may not take comprehensive exams until both foreign language requirements are satisfied.

The approved languages are French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Russian. The graduate committee may approve another language upon demonstration of its relevance to a student's plan of study. Refer to the Graduate Program Guidelines for details on completing the forgein language requirement.

Graduate Technology Projects

According to the English Department Graduate Program Guidelines doctoral students may, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies and a faculty mentor, propose and carryout a technology project that has either pedagogical or research applications to satisfy the second language requirement.

Below is a list of sample technology projects that students have used to meet the second language requirement. If you are interested in using a technology project to fulfill the second language requirement, please meet with a faculty mentor to discuss possible options.

* Some of older projects were done before the development of web-development tools such as FrontPage or Netscape Composer. These projects would not necessarily fulfill today's second language requirements for a technology project.