Graduate Program Handbook
The Department of English Graduate Handbook is an essential guide to the Department’s graduate program. The handbook is the primary source of information regarding departmental policy and procedures related to the program. It is expected that all students will familiarize themselves with the handbook and take an active role in planning their graduate education. The handbook specifies the standards to which you will be held during your academic program.
Table of Contents
2. Graduate Study in English at UCSB
3. The M.A./Ph.D. Program
3.1. Course Requirements
3.2 Distribution Requirement
3.3 Normal Progress for the M.A./Ph.D. Program
3.4 Incomplete Courses
3.5 Normative Time
3.6 Ph.D. Classification
4. The Ph.D. Program
4.1. Course Requirements
4.2 Distribution Requirement
4.3 Normal Progress for the Ph.D. Program
4.4. Incomplete Courses
4.5 Normative Time
4.6 Ph.D. Classification
5. Independent Studies, Colloquia, Special Courses
5.1 English 297—Graduate Tutorial with Required Attendance at an Undergraduate Course
5.2 English 500—Directed Teaching
5.3 English 591—Doctoral Colloquium
5.3.1 English 592—LCM Colloquium
5.3.2 English 593—Graduate Technology Colloquium
5.3.3 English 594—ACGCC Colloquium
5.3.4 English 595—EMC Colloquium
5.4 English 596—Directed Reading and Research
5.5 English 597—Individual Study for Examination
5.6 English 599—Dissertation Research and Preparation
6. Coursework in Other Departments
7. Foreign Language Requirement
7.1 Method 1: Translation Examination
7.1.1 Preparing of the Language Exam
7.2 Method 2: Coursework
8. The First Qualifying Examination
8.1 Concept of the Exam
8.2 Scheduling of the Exam
8.3 Format of the Exam
8.4 Preparing for the Exam
8.5 Evaluation of the Exam
8.6 Invitation to Continue to the Ph.D.
9. The Second Qualifying Examination
9.1 Examination, Prospectus, Reading List, and Chapter Conference
9.2 Steps Leading Up to the Exam
10. Advancement to Candidacy
10.1 Doctoral Candidacy Fee Offset (DCFO)
11. The Dissertation
11.1 Filing the Dissertation
12. Registration
12.1 Schedule Adjustment
15. The Job Search and Job Placement Committee
15.1 Counseling and Career Services
16. Financial Support
16.1 Out of State Tuition
16.2 Departmental Fellowships
16.3 UCSB Fellowships for Continuing Students
16.4 Other UCSB Fellowships
16.5 Tutorships
16.6.1 Teaching Assistantship Duties and Workload
16.6.2 Terms of Employment and Length of Service
16.6.3 Selection of Teaching Assistantships
16.6.4 Teaching Assistantships in Other Departments
16.7 Summer Associateships
16.8 Employment on Faculty Grants
17. Administration of the Graduate Program
17.1 The Graduate Council
17.2 The Graduate Division
17.3 The Graduate Advisor
17.4 The Graduate Committee
17.5 Individual Faculty Advisers
17.6 Problems and Dispute Resolution
19. Reading Lists for the First Qualifying Examination
- Reading List 1: Medieval Literatures
- Reading List 2: Renaissance Literature
- Reading List 3: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Reading List 4: Romantic and Victorian Literature
- Reading List 5: American Literature to 1865
- Reading List 6: American Literature From 1865
- Reading List 7: Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature
- Reading List 8: U.S. Race and Ethnic Literatures
- Reading List 9: General Theory
- Reading List 10: Theories of Genders and Sexualities
- Reading List 11: Literature and Theory of Technology
- Reading List 12: Theories of Literature and the Environment
- Reading List 13: Literature and the Mind
- Reading List 14: Modern Culture and Critical Theory (MCCT)
- Reading List 15: 21st Century Literature in Formation