The
Departmental Preliminary Examination consists
of three parts as follows:
1.
Germanic Philology (3 hours). Three sections. The
composition of the individual sections is flexible and based
on the student's preparation.
2.
Literary History (3 hours). An essay written
in answer to one of three questions from the medieval period.
3.
Literary Interpretation (3 hours). An interpretation
based on one of three texts from different periods of literature
after 1400.
The
Oral Comprehensive Examination (2 hours).
With
due consideration given to the student's specialization, the
two-hour examination will have the following parts:
-Dissertation
proposal (30 minutes; no more than 10 minutes will be allotted
to the candidate to present the dissertation proposal);
- Medieval Philology and Germanic Linguistics (45 minutes);
- Literary history after 1400 (45 minutes)
