The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in the Current Students section of this Web site

Coursework Requirements
Students are expected to take courses with a wide range of faculty members. Those entering with a BA must take 10 units in the major field, four units in the minor field; those entering with an MA must take six units in the major field, four units in the minor field. 300-level courses approved by The Graduate School may be taken with permission of the graduate advisor and instructor.

Other PhD Degree Requirements

• Examinations: French and/or German passed at end of first year; completion of coursework, minor-field requirement, and successful dissertation proposal constitute passage of PhD qualifying examination. For students in Asian art, French or German and one Asian language must be passed before advancement to candidacy. One of the languages will be passed during the student's first year.
• Project: minor-field requirement outside dissertation field, consisting of syllabus to a course that student might teach, read by two faculty members and judged by entire department faculty
• PhD Dissertation: dissertation supervised by three-person faculty committee, based on student's major-field requirement: proposal passed by majority of department faculty during spring quarter of third year of study (second year for matriculating MA Students)
• Other: teaching assignments; written evaluations of student's performance in each course at end of each quarter; review of written evaluations by faculty at beginning of each quarter; students with deficient evaluations meet with department chair and graduate advisor; copies of written reviews distributed to students. On the basis of cumulative written negative evaluations, students in serious difficulty at end of the first or second year may not be permitted to continue in the program.
• Final Evaluations: defense of dissertation