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Reading List Exam


Your Reading List Exam is your chance to gain an in-depth knowledge of three areas of interest.  Many students use this opportunity to begin working on their thesis; others use it to "fill in gaps" prior to taking the subject G.R.E's; still others use it to prepare for classroom teaching.  You will be examined over three of the following categories:

  • A period
  • An author 
  • A genre
  • A critical or theoretical approach

How you define these categories is entirely up to you. For instance, you could choose to study Medieval French Literature (period), Arthurian Romance (genre) and Post-Colonialism (approach); Charles Dickens (author), the novel (genre) and the 19th century (period), or Digital Media (genre), Contemporary Rhetoric (period), and Ethnographic Study (approach).

In order to prepare to take your exam, you need to:

  • Meet with the MA director by the middle of your second semester to identify your categories and discuss your exam committee.
  • Identify your two primary committee members and work with them to generate your lists (scroll down for sample reading lists).
  • Submit the Reading List Form and your reading lists to the MA director by the end of your second semester.
  • Meet with the MA director during the first few weeks of your third semester; at that time, the director will assign your third examiner.
  • Schedule your exam for no later than the fourth week of your third semester.

Once you have successfully completed your exam, request your committee members to return the Reading List Exam Assessment to the MA director.

Sample Reading Lists

 

Last Updated on 1/30/2009 11:53:11 AM