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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.
All PhD candidates at Yale receive five years of full funding. This consists of a 12-month stipend in each of years one and two, during which students complete their course work, a 12-month stipend in each of years three and four, during which students are expected to assist in teaching in one course each semester, and a 12-month stipend during the year (usually year five) in which students take the dissertation completion fellowship. The University also covers the premiums for basic health care and hospitalization at the University Health Service for students, 50% of that premium for spouses, and 100% for families with children during the entire period in which a student is registered, even if registration is extended beyond the five years of the financial aid package.
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 2011-2012
For more detailed
information, please see Information on the Graduate Program.
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