Slavic Language Requirements

LANGUAGE COMPETENCE REQUIRED FOR A PH.D. IN SLAVIC LINGUISTICS

Students are required to pass the reading, grammar, and speaking/oral comprehension portions of the departmental Russian proficiency examination.

Students are required to show proficiency in a second and third Slavic language by passing Slavic 671, 672 in Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, or Serbo Croatian; or, where permitted by the advisor and the Graduate Studies Committee, the 101, 407 sequence in Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, or Serbo Croatian; or equivalent (determined by a departmental proficiency examination or certification of completion from a recognized language program). If the second Slavic language requirement is fulfilled with a South Slavic language, the third Slavic language must be a West Slavic language, and vice versa.

Students are required to pass Slavic 810 (Old Church Slavonic)

Students are required to show proficiency in German by passing German 571 572 or equivalent (determined by the Department of Germanic Languages proficiency examination or certification of completion from a recognized language program). Students may petition the Graduate Studies Committee for permission to substitute other languages.