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Requirements for the M.A. degree. Two concentrations offered: Russian Literature and Culture and Comparative Slavic and East European Literature and Culture.

Course Requirements MA, Russian Literature and Culture MA, Comparative Slavic and East European Literature and Culture
1.
SLAV 700
1-credit proseminar (1 hour)
SLAV 700
1-credit proseminar (1 hour)
2.
RUSS 400
Evolution of Russian
and
RUSS 405
Structure of Modern Russian
(6 hours)
RUSS 400
Evolution of Russian
or
RUSS 405
Structure of Modern Russian
and
one other track-relevant linguistics course
(6 hours)

 

3.
RUSS 412  Advanced (4th-year) Conversation and Composition
unless there is obviously no need
(3 hours)
One year of a second Slavic or East European (Czech, Hungarian, Polish) language
(6 hours)
4. Five courses:1 course in premodern Russian literature

and

4 courses to be distributed over 19th/ 20th/21st-century Russian literature and culture

(15 hours)

Five courses:
3 courses in Russian literature/culture
and
2 comparative (Russian & Czech, Russian & Hungarian, Russian & Polish)
or exclusively non-Russian literature and culture courses (Czech, Hungarian, Polish)
(15 hours)
5. Thesis hours, 993 (3 hours)
Language requirement Reading knowledge of one modern foreign language (other than a Slavic language), usually French or German
Thesis
MA students must submit a thesis, preferably a development of a term or seminar paper written for an upper-level class, after all coursework is complete.
The Department defines thesis as an article of publishable quality.
Final Oral Examination
Mastery of MA-level material on Department’s Reading List
and
Defense of Thesis.
Mastery of Reading List in Russian and a Second Slavic/East European Languages (as agreed upon with Thesis Advisor)
and
Defense of thesis