- 56 credit-hours graduate course work required (not including Pedagogy [791], the Dissertation Colloquium, and English Pro-Seminar in Teaching)
- following the first 6 seminars of four-credit course work, up to 16 hours of the remaining 32 credit-hours may be taken as two-credit courses
- 2 two-credit-hour course maximum per semester
Year |
Semester |
Course |
Teaching Duties |
| Year 1 | Fall: | 3 four-credit seminars (including "Survey of English") | None |
| + 1 two-credit seminar | |||
| Spring: | 3 four-credit seminars (including "Profession" course) | None |
|
| + 1 two-credit seminar | |||
| Foreign Language Requirement (fall or spring) | |||
| Summer: | TATTO |
| Year 2 | Fall: | 3 four-credit seminars or | TA |
| (2 four-credit seminars + 2 two-credit seminars) | |||
| Spring: | 3 four-credit seminars or | TA |
|
| (2 four-credit seminars + 2 two-credit seminars) | |||
| Teaching of Composition, 791 (two-credit course) | |||
| Meet with Advisory Committee | |||
| Select Faculty Teaching Mentor |
| Year 3 | Fall: | 1 four-credit seminar or 2 two-credit seminars | Teaching Assoc. |
| Directed Reading toward Oral Exam | |||
| Spring: | Ph.D. Exam by April 15 | Teaching Assoc. |
|
(101/181) |
|||
| Summer: | Dissertation Prospectus |
| Year 4 | Fall: | Dissertation Colloquium (two credit-hours) | None |
| Spring: | Pro-Seminar in Teaching of Literature (two credit-hours) | None |
| Year 5 | Fall: | Dissertation Colloquium (two credit-hours) | DTFs will teach one 300-level course in the fall or spring. Students w/o a DTF will teach one 100- or 200-level course in the fall or spring. |
| Spring: | Deposit Dissertation |
- 40 credit-hours graduate course work required (not including Pedagogy [791], the Dissertation Colloquium, and English Pro-Seminar in Teaching)
- following the first 6 seminars of four-credit course work, up to 16 credits of the remaining 32 credit-hours may be taken as two-hour courses
- 2 two-credit-hour course maximum per semester
Year
|
Semester |
Courses |
Teaching Duties |
| Year 1 | Fall: | 3 four-credit seminars (including "Survey of English" of course) | None |
| + 1 two-credit seminar | |||
| Spring: | 3 four-credit seminars | None |
|
| + 1 two-credit seminar | |||
| Foreign Language Requirement (fall or spring) | |||
| Summer: | TATTO |
| Year 2 | Fall: | 3 four-credit seminars or | TA |
| (2 four-credit seminars + 2 two-credit seminars) | |||
| Spring: | Teaching of Composition, 791 (two credit-hours) | TA |
|
| Meet with Advisory Committee | |||
| Select Faculty Teaching Mentor |
| Year 3 | Fall: | Course work to be determined with Advisory Committee | Teaching Assoc. |
| Directed Reading Toward Oral Exam | (101/181) |
||
| Spring: | Ph.D. Orals by April 15 | Teaching Assoc. |
|
(101/181) |
|||
| Summer: | Dissertation Prospectus |
| Year 4 | Fall: | Dissertation Colloquium (two credit-hours) | None |
| Spring | Pro-Seminar in Teaching of Literature (two credit-hours) | None |
| Year 5 | Fall: | Dissertation Colloquium (two credit-hours) | DTFs will teach one 300-level course in the fall or spring. Students w/o a DTF will teach one 100- or 200-level course inthe fall or spring. |
| Spring | Deposit Dissertation | None |
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