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The Joint Ph.D. Program in Social Thought and Classics is intended for
students whose study of a particular issue or text from
the ancient Greek and Roman world requires a broadly
inter-disciplinary approach alongside a professional
mastery of philological skills.
Those interested in pursuing this joint degree program
must first be admitted in EITHER the Committee
on Social Thought OR the Department
of Classics and must complete at minimum the three
quarter language survey (Greek or Latin), offered by
the Department of Classics, with an average grade of
B or higher. Application shall then be made to the second
department and, provided that the standards of admission
to that department are met, students will be admitted
to joint degree status. They will not, however, be considered
to have transferred into the second department and their
original department will remain their sole department
for purposes of registration and financial aid (including
dissertation fellowships). They will be assigned two
faculty advisors, one whose primary appointment is in
Social Thought, one whose primary appointment is in
Classics. Students initially admitted to Classics will
be expected to complete all requirements for the A.M.
in Classical
Languages and Literatures in their first year. Students
initially admitted to Social Thought may complete
the remaining requirements of the A.M. in Classical
Languages and Literatures during the second year
of study and the A.M. will be awarded at that time.
Although students will fulfill the requirements for
the A.M. in both Social Thought and Classical
Languages and Literatures, they will receive only
one Master’s degree from the University.
Students admitted to the joint degree program must
satisfy both all the normal requirements for the Ph.D.
in Classical Languages and Literatures and all the
normal requirements for the Ph.D.
in Social Thought. The Social Thought language
requirement of a high-level pass in a foregin language
exam will be automatically met by the requirements of
the Classics program. The dissertation proposal will
have to be approved by both departments; the dissertation
committee will normally include three professors, at
least one of whom will come from each department.
In order to ensure that the combination is genuine and
rigorous, those students with joint degree status will
be required to offer at least a majority of non-Classical
texts on the Social Thought Fundamentals Examination.
Students with joint degree status will be encouraged,
in consultation with their advisors, to take courses
on non-Classical subjects that will help prepare them
for this examination.
Because of the difference in the way and extent to
which the Classics and the Social Thought Ph.D.
programs are regulated, the mode of access to joint
degree status will vary, depending upon whether candidates
enter into it from the one department or the other.
For a student coming to the joint degree program from
the Department of Classics, a typical program of study
might look like this:
| FIRST YEAR |
At the beginning, diagnostic examinations
in Greek and Latin; the three quarter survey in
Greek or Latin, followed by a competency examination
in that language; two quarter seminars in Classics;
one course above the 206 level in the other ancient
language; prose composition in Greek or Latin; the
methods workshop; two additional courses in Social
Thought. Linguistic competence in French or German
must be demonstrated. |
| SECOND YEAR |
The other three quarter sequence in Greek or Latin,
followed by the respective competency examination;
two more quarter seminars in Classics; four additional
courses in Social Thought; the methods workshop. |
| THIRD YEAR |
Examinations in Greek and Roman history or seminars
in these fields; special field examination; three
Social Thought classes. Linguistic competence in
a second modern language should be demonstrated.
(This and the following year could be exchanged). |
| FOURTH YEAR |
Social Thought Fundamentals Examination. (This
and the preceding year could be exchanged). |
FIFTH YEAR
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Submission and approval of dissertation proposal. |
| SIXTH YEAR |
Completion and submission of dissertation. |
For a student coming to the joint degree program from
the Committee on Social Thought, a typical program of
study might look like this (though some students will
take longer to complete the requirements for the A.M.
in Classical Languages and Literatures):
| FIRST YEAR |
At the beginning, diagnostic examinations
in Greek and Latin; the three quarter survey in
Greek or Latin, followed by a competency examination
in that language; the methods workshop; one course
above the 206 level in the other ancient language;
five additional courses. Linguistic competence in
French or German must be demonstrated. |
| SECOND YEAR |
The remaining requirements for the A.M. in Classical
Languages and Literatures; the other three quarter
sequence in Greek or Latin, followed by the respective
competency examination; two quarter seminars in
Classics; prose composition in Greek or Latin; the
methods workshop; three additional courses. |
| THIRD YEAR |
Examinations in Greek and Roman history or seminars
in these fields; special field examination. Linguistic
competence in a second modern language should be
demonstrated. (This and the following year could
be exchanged). |
| FOURTH YEAR |
Social Thought Fundamentals Examination. (This
and the preceding year could be exchanged). |
FIFTH YEAR
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Submission and approval of dissertation proposal. |
| SIXTH YEAR |
Completion and submission of dissertation. |
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