Degree Requirements (M.A.)
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 |
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1.
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SLAV 700
1-credit proseminar (1 hour)
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SLAV 700
1-credit proseminar (1 hour)
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2. |
RUSS 400
Evolution of Russian
and
RUSS 405
Structure of Modern Russian
(6 hours)
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RUSS 400
Evolution of Russian
or
RUSS 405
Structure of Modern Russian
and
one other track-relevant linguistics course
(6 hours)
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3. |
RUSS 412 Advanced (4th-year) Conversation and Composition
unless there is obviously no need
(3 hours)
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One year of a second Slavic or East European (Czech, Hungarian, Polish) language
(6 hours)
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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)
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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.
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Final Oral Examination |
Mastery of MA-level material on Department’s Reading List
and
Defense of Thesis.
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Mastery of Reading List in Russian and a Second Slavic/East European Languages (as agreed upon with Thesis Advisor)
and
Defense of thesis
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