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Graduate
Program Overview
Yale’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers
the Ph.D. in Spanish peninsular literature, Latin American
literature, and a combination of Luso-Brazilian and
Spanish/Spanish American literatures. In addition, the
department participates in a combined Ph.D. program
with the Department of African American Studies as well
as a combined Ph.D. program in conjunction with the
Renaissance Studies Program.
The program is typically five or six years long, depending
on whether the student takes one or two years to write
the dissertation. The first two years are devoted to
course work and the fulfillment of the three language
requirements; the third year, to the Qualifying Examination
and the preparation of the Dissertation Prospectus;
the fourth and fifth (or fourth through sixth) years,
to the writing of the dissertation. The student participates
in the Teaching and Pedagogy Program during years two
through four, taking the required course in modern languages
pedagogy in the second year, and teaching one course
per semester in the department’s basic language
sequence during the third and fourth years. Assisting
in literature courses is offered as available. No teaching
is done during the two years of course work or during
the dissertation fellowship year.
Students receive full university fellowship support
(tuition plus nine-month stipend) during the first four
years and year five or year six, in addition to grants
for summer study during each of two summers. Support
for doctoral research during other summers is available
on a competitive basis. A Graduate School conference
fund, also available on a competitive basis, supports
graduate students’ participation in academic conferences.
Yale provides comprehensive health care coverage and
services, including primary care, additional hospitalization,
and specialty care coverage, at no charge. Yale covers
half the cost for students electing two-person or family
coverage.
Program
requirements
- Sixteen graduate-level courses,
of which two are required (Methodologies of Modern Foreign
Language Teaching and History of the Spanish Language)
and two are taken outside the department.
- Three
language requirements: (a) a reading/translation knowledge
of Latin, usually satisfied by taking two semesters
of Latin during the academic year or the intensive course
during the summer; (b) reading/translation competence
in another language relevant to the student’s
program; and (c) a language/literature “minor”
consisting of two graduate courses taken in the language/literature
of the student’s choice. This “minor”
language/literature requirement presumes graduate-level
proficiency in the language chosen, and it is tested
on the oral portion of the Qualifying Examination by
one of the professors with whom the student has studied
and prepared the list of readings to be examined.
- Participation in the Teaching and Pedagogy program.
- Qualifying Examination, consisting of written and
oral components.
- Dissertation Prospectus, prepared
in consultation with the student’s adviser and
approved by the faculty.
- Doctoral Dissertation, prepared in close consultation
with the adviser, approved by the faculty and Graduate
School, and completed during the fifth or sixth year
of study.
Graduate Student Handbook 2009-2010
For more detailed
information, please see Information on the Graduate Program.
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