English, PhD (Boston)

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Proseminar

• ENGL 5103 — Proseminar

Theories and Methods

From the catalog

Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • ENGL 7351 — Topics in Literary Study
  • ENGL 7358 — Topics in Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies
  • ENGL 7370 — Introduction to Digital Humanities
  • ENGL 7380 — Topics in Digital Humanities
  • WMNS 6100 — Theorizing Gender and Sexuality
  • WMNS 7976 — Directed Study

Writing and Rhetoric

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Complete 4 semester hours from the following (if completing 12 semester hours of Literary Period requirements).

Complete 8 semester hours of the following (if completing 8 hours of Literary Period requirements).

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • ENGL 7360 — Topics in Rhetoric
  • ENGL 7392 — Writing and the Teaching of Writing
  • ENGL 7395 — Topics in Writing

Literary Periods

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Complete 8 semester hours from TWO of the following Literary Periods (if completing 8 semester hours of Writing and Rhetoric requirements), or complete 12 semester hours from THREE of the following Literary Periods (if completing 4 semester hours of Writing and Rhetoric requirements):

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • Literature Pre-1700
    • ENGL 7281 — Topics in Medieval Literature
    • ENGL 7282 — Topics in Renaissance Literature
  • Literature 1700–1900
    • ENGL 7284 — Topics in 18th-Century Literature
  • Literature Post-1900
    • ENGL 7351 — Topics in Literary Study

Electives

24 semester hours.

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Complete 24 semester hours of ENGL courses, or non-ENGL courses through successful petition.

Exam Preparation

• One of:
  • ENGL 8960 — Exam Preparation—Doctoral

Research

• One of:
  • ENGL 9986 — Research

Dissertation

• One of:
  • ENGL 9990 — Dissertation Term 1
  • ENGL 9991 — Dissertation Term 2

Dissertation Continuation

From the catalog

Following completion of ENGL 9990 and ENGL 9991, registration in the following class is required in each fall and spring semester for all students and each summer semester for those within funding until the dissertation is completed (students outside of funding must also register in the summer semester if it is their terminal term):

• One of:
  • ENGL 9996 — Dissertation Continuation

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