Twenty-four semester hours of approved graduate course work are required for the Master’s degree.
A total of 48 semester hours of approved graduate course work must be completed for the doctoral degree and students must maintain a GPA of B or better.
Qualifying exams for all prospective candidates in the Department who have taken at least six courses will take place during the last two weeks of March (or in September, for those students who have enrolled in March).
Language requirements for international students (entering from Semester 1, 2018 onward):
at the time of registration for the qualifying exam, international students need to submit
Students are allocated a supervisor during their first semester. They will choose a thesis topic in line with the supervisor's areas of expertise. In the course of the third semester, MA students are expected to present their topic to the Department. In the following semester, they will submit a draft of his or her dissertation prospectus (a research proposal; 10 –15 pages) to the dissertation committee.
The thesis committee must approve the completed thesis. The thesis research must be presented to the department in a public forum and defended at an oral examination conducted by the thesis committee. MA-theses are expected to be around 100 pages, PhD-theses 150-200 pages. Most students complete their MA-thesis by semester 5 or 6.