Graduate
Study
The Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA offers M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Admission
In
addition to the University minimum requirements, the department
requires an undergraduate major in the field or three years
of Russian language and a sufficient number of Russian history,
literature, and Iinguistics courses to document a foundation
for graduate study. For application to the Ph.D. program,
the department requires a UCLA M.A. in Slavic Languages and
Literatures or its equivalent. If you do not hold a UCLA M.A.
in Slavic Languages and Literatures, you are required to make
up deficiencies as stipulated by the graduate adviser and
take the M.A. examination as a screening examination within
your first year.
All
applicants must provide three letters of recommendation from
persons capable of judging their academic potential and submit
a writing sample in the field they wish to pursue. No departmental
admission tests are necessary, but the Graduate Record Examination
(GRE) is required.
A
department brochure describing the curriculum in some detail
(graduate and undergraduate) is available from the Graduate
Adviser, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 115
Kinsey Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1502.
Major
Fields or Subdisciplines
Candidates
for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees select a specialization in
either literature or linguistics, with Russian as the principal
language and literature. On the Ph.D. level, students may
specialize in a language or literature other than Russian
by special arrangement.
Master of Arts Degree
Foreign
Language Requirement
There
are two foreign language requirements which must be completed
before the M.A. comprehensive examination: (1) you must pass
a departmental Russian language proficiency examination which
tests your ability to translate from Russian to English and
vice versa. This examination may be retaken each term until
a pass grade is achieved; (2) you must demonstrate ability
to read scholarly literature in either French or German by
one of three methods: (a) passing the appropriate Graduate
School Foreign Language Test (GSFLT) reading examination with
a score of 500 or better, (b) passing the departmental reading
examination, or (c) completing level five at UCLA in one of
the languages with a grade of B or better (equivalent university-level
course work in French or German taken within two years of
admittance may satisfy this requirement at the discretion
of the graduate adviser).
Course
Requirements
Slavic
201, Russian 204, 212A, 220A are required of all M.A. students.
Literature students must also take Russian 211A, 211B,212B,213,219.
Linguistics students must also take Slavic 202, Russian 220B,
one course from 211A, 211 B, 212B, 213, and three courses
from the following: Russian 241, 242, 265; 243, 263, 264;
210, Slavic 241A, 241B.
Courses in the 500 series may not be applied toward the M.A.
course requirements.
Comprehensive
Examination Plan
Application
for advancement to candidacy must be made no later than the
second week of the term in which the M.A. examinations are
to be taken and is accepted only if you have satisfied the
foreign language requirement in French or German and have
passed the Russian Language Proficiency Examination. M.A.
examinations are offered at the end of Fall, Winter, and Spring
Quarters. After you have declared your intention to take the
examination, a committee is appointed by the chair. The comprehensive
examination has two parts - written (three hours) and oral
(two hours) - and is based on course work and the departmental
reading list. The examinations include materials from both
subdisciplines. If you receive a pass grade on the written
examination, you are admitted to the oral examination which
is designed to test the fields of major interest and general
background. It may be conducted partly in Russian.
Your
combined performance in the written and oral examinations
is graded high pass, pass, or fail. A grade of high pass or
pass is necessary to receive the M.A. degree; the grade of
high pass is necessary to enter the Ph.D. program. Examinations
may be repeated once; there is a six-month limit on retaking
examinations graded pass and a one-year limit on examinations
graded fail.
Ph.D. Degree
Admission
You are formally admitted to the Ph.D.
program after (1) passing the UCLA M.A. comprehensive examination
with a grade of high pass, (2) passing the reading examination
in both French and German (see "Foreign Language Requirement"),
and (3) demonstrating proficiency in modern Slavic languages
other than Russian. Literature students must complete one
year of the language of their second Slavic literature; linguistics
students must complete one year of one language and two years
of another (one of the languages should represent the West
Slavic group, the other the South Slavic group). You may demonstrate
equivalent proficiency through written and oral examinations
in lieu of taking the language courses.
The comprehensive examination serves as a
screening examination for admission to the doctoral program
if you are entering UCLA with an M.A. from another institution.
You may retake the examination once in order to achieve the
necessary high pass grade.
Foreign Language Requirement
You must demonstrate ability to read scholarly
literature in both French and German by completing one of
the three methods listed under the master's degree. With departmental
consent, students specializing in linguistics may substitute
reading knowledge in another Language important to the study
of Slavic linguistics (Finnish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian,
Romanian, or a Turkic language relevant to East or South Slavic
historical linguistics) and a score of 450 on the Graduate
School Foreign Language Test (GSFLT) in either French or German.
Reading knowledge of two such Ianguages may, by the same procedure,
be substituted for the entire French or (more rarely) German
examination.
Course Requirements
Before the formation of a doctoral committee,
you must have been officially admitted to the doctoral program
and have taken the following required courses.
Linguistics students must take Slavic 221,222,
223, and three other advanced linguistics courses or seminars
(numbered above 220).
Recommended preparation for linguists includes
Linguistics 103,110,120A, 120B, M150.
Literature students must take two courses from Slavic 230A-230B-230C
and four additional advanced literature courses or seminars.
Candidates specializing in literature are
advised to acquire sound general knowledge of modern Western
European literature.
Qualifying Paper
You are required to submit to the faculty
a qualifying paper that demonstrates your ability to conduct
serious and original research. The paper must be received
and approved by your faculty adviser (usually the prospective
examination and dissertation committee chair) no later than
one term preceding the term in which you expect to take the
qualifying examinations.
Qualifying Examinations
All students are expected to have sound
general knowledge of both Slavic philology and Russian literary
history equivalent to that required for the M.A. at UCLA.
Students in linguistics must take one written
examination on the structure of modern Russian and another
on comparative Slavic linguistics, the history of Russian,
and the history and structure of a second Slavic language.
Each examination lasts three hours.
Students in literature must take a series
of six examinations on Russian literature and one examination
on a Slavic literature other than Russian. Each examination
is one hour in length; all seven must be taken within a one
week time period.
If you receive a grade of pass on the written
examination(s), you are admitted to a two- hour University
Oral Qualifying Examination, which is designed to test the
fields of major interest and general background, and which
typically includes discussion of the dissertation topic.
After considering your overall performance in both the oral
and written examinations, the committee assigns a cumulative
grade. A pass grade entitles you to write a dissertation in
order to receive the Ph.D. degree. At the committee's discretion,
you may be required to retake any or all portions of the Ph.D.
examinations within one calendar year after the first attempt.
Within two terms (or one term and a summer)
after passing the qualifying examinations, you must prepare
a prospectus of the dissertation.
You are required to deliver a formal lecture
in the California Slavic Colloquium no later than two calendar
years after advancement to candidacy.
Candidate in Philosophy Degree
You are eligible to receive the C.Phil.
degree on advancement to candidacy for the Ph.D.
Final Oral Examination
A final oral examination is not required.
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