PhD Requirements

If students have completed their M.A. degrees at UNC‑CH, their candidacy for the Ph.D. entails the completion of forty‑two credit hours (exclusive of language courses); these credit hours build from a base of twenty‑seven hours carried forward from the M.A. program, to which are added fifteen hours of work at the doctoral level. Students who first enter the UNC‑CH program at the doctoral level must secure UNC‑CH acceptance of their M.A. (this entails the advisor reading and approving the thesis, and the DGS approving the acceptance); then, they must complete a minimum of fifteen hours of coursework at the doctoral level. Additional course credits may be taken to strengthen preparation for the written comprehensive examinations, to lay the groundwork for the dissertation, or to develop a wider range of teaching fields.

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