The Transliteratures Project

Curricular Requirements for All Graduate Students in Foreign Literature Programs
Please note:
The requirement below concerns ALL graduate students (other than Transliteratures Fellows) in Classics, Comparative Literature, French, German, Italian, and Spanish & Portuguese.

As a general rule, ALL graduate students in foreign literature are required to take six of the credits required for their Ph.D. in one or two other foreign literature program(s). These credits can be taken at any time during the student's course of study, but have to be completed before the Ph.D. examination.

For those students who do not have sufficient knowledge in a second foreign language taught at Rutgers at the graduate level, the graduate programs will offer every year a certain number of seminars taught in English, where texts will be used in both the original language and in their English translation.

To facilitate the students' choice, the Transliteratures Project collects and disseminates each semester, on the eve of the registration period, a detailed list of all graduate seminars offered by the foreign literature programs during the following semester.

Again: this requirement concerns ALL graduate students in foreign language or literature. Transliteratures Fellows are subject to a different requirement.

Qualifiers:

a)This requirement does not concern students who have begun their graduate studies at Rutgers before academic year 2001-2002.
b)One of the two seminars mentioned in this requirement can be in English medieval literature, when reading knowledge of any older form of English is listed as a prerequisite.
c)Due to the special nature of the Graduate Program in Spanish & Portuguese, the students in that program are required to take only three of the six required credits in a foreign literature program other than their own. The nature of the other three credits to be taken outside the Program will be determined in each case by the Spanish/Portuguese Graduate Advisor.
d)Students whose professional specialization entails advanced study of at least one foreign language other than the two foreign languages for which some competency is required as a general (Graduate School) rule will be required to take only one seminar in a foreign literature program other than their own.
e)Students who come to Rutgers with an M.A. in their discipline are required to take only one seminar in a foreign literature program other than their own.