Distribution Requirements

Each doctoral student must at some time take courses that fulfill these six distribution requirements:

(1) One course pre-1700

(2) One course 1700-1900

(3) One course post-1900

(4) One course on literature of the Americas

(5) One course on literature outside the Americas

(6) One course in Minority literature (racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality)

In cases where there is uncertainty about the classification of the course (e.g. a course that extends over a long chronological period or a course that is not exclusively devoted to a single minority literature but includes a substantial portion of that literature), the Graduate Chair should be consulted. Transfer credits from other graduate programs may be counted toward the requirements at the discretion of the Graduate Chair.