Matter in Section VI pertains only to those students emphasizing Latin Pedagogy with Secondary School Teaching Certification.

Basic Requirements
The degree requires 33 units of graduate-level work, distributed as follows:

1. All entering graduate students must enroll in CLAS 510A, 3 units, the basic proseminar in philological, archaeological, and pedagogical methods.
2. At least 18 units of LAT 5xx, including LAT 586.
3. At least 3 units of CLAS 596, the Classics graduate seminar.
4. 6 units from CLAS, GRK, LAT, or CLAS/HIST 5xx.
5. 23 (undergraduate) units in the College of Education.
6. 12 units of student teaching.
7. No more than 3 units of graduate-level independent study credit may be counted toward the degree.
8. 3 units-and no more than 3 units-of CLAS 910, thesis writing, must be counted toward the basic 33 units.

Before enrolling in CLAS 596, students must have demonstrated reading proficiency in a modern foreign language, following the procedures specified below. Students in the Latin Pedagogy emphasis may substitute 3 units of CLAS 596 for 3 units of either GRK 500-589 or LAT 500-589 (excluding LAT 586) if significant amounts of Greek and/or Latin texts are read in the seminar. Students wishing to do so must submit a petition briefly stating their intent, along with a course syllabus, to the Classics Department Curriculum Committee before the end of the first week of the semester for approval.

Before earning permission to undertake the M.A. thesis, students must pass the Modern Language, Qualifying, and Comprehensive Examinations.

Modern Language
Students in all four emphases must demonstrate reading proficiency in French, German, or Italian. Modern language examinations are administered by the department at the beginning or the fall semester according to a uniform format: students must translate a passage from a scholarly work in the field of classical studies within one hour. Dictionaries are allowed.

Students may satisfy this requirement by completing German 500 with a grade of B or higher (and thus need not take the departmental exam). Students who do not fulfill the modern language examination requirement by the end of their second semester of graduate residence will not be allowed to continue in the program until the requirement is fulfilled, and will be ineligible for financial aid or any other form of departmental support.

Qualifying Examinations
The examinations will be given once each semester, in the sixth week. Exams will be administered in the fall and spring semesters only, not at any time during the summer.

1. One exam will be devoted to translation from Latin (1.5 hours). This is a translation exam, based entirely on the Reading List in Appendix F. Students will be required to demonstrate command of the Latin language at the M.A. level in order to continue in the program. The examination will include four selections to be translated, two of poetry and two of prose. Students may use a dictionary.

2. Students have a choice of one of the following for the second examination:

A. One exam will be devoted to translation from Greek (1.5 hours). This is a translation exam, based entirely on the Reading List in Appendix F.  Students will be required to demonstrate command of the Greek language at the M.A. level in order to continue in the program. The examination will include four selections to be translated, two of poetry and two of prose. Students may use a dictionary.

OR

B. One exam will be devoted to Roman archaeology (1.5 hours). Students are required to demonstrate their familiarity with key monuments of classical Roman archaeology in this written examination. They will be expected to identify 20 monuments, providing such details as the name of the monument, the date, the artist, the location for architecture, architectural sculpture, and other immovables and, where pertinent, the country, and briefly to discuss the significance of that data.

Grading of the Qualifying Examinations
Grading is on the basis of High Pass, Pass, and No Pass. Two members of the Department of Classics faculty will grade the examinations. In the event of a disagreement about an examination, the Director of Graduate Studies will ask a third faculty member to arbitrate. The exams will be graded and the results reported to students within two weeks of the examination date.

If failed, either exam may be retaken in the sixth week of the following semester. Students may take the qualifying examination up to three times, and they must pass the examination by their third semester of residence after they have begun taking courses in Latin for graduate credit. Students who do not pass the Qualifying Exam within the prescribed timeline may not continue in the M.A. program.

Comprehensive Examinations
Comprehensive Examinations are normally taken in the semester after the Qualifying Examinations have been passed. They are administered only in the fall and spring semesters, not at any time during the summer. Students must have previously passed the Modern Language and Qualifying Examinations in order to attempt the Comprehensive Examination.  

It is the student's responsibility, prior to taking the Comprehensive Examinations, to prepare a Master's Degree Program of Study form, known as the "degree check," to submit it to the Director of Graduate Studies for his or her signature, and to see that it is routed to the Graduate School with the assistance of the departmental Graduate Secretary.

The Comprehensive Examinations are two in number for the Latin Pedagogy emphasis. The student teaching experience together with the production of a Teaching Portfolio substitutes for the third component of the Comprehensive Examinations in the other three M.A. emphases. All examinations of the same type will be scheduled at the same time; i.e., all Roman Archaeology exams at the same time, all common Ancient History exams at the same time, etc. No separate times will be scheduled for individual exams.

Students should inform the Director of Graduate Studies of their intention to take the exams, preferably in the semester before the Comprehensive Examinations are to be taken, but no later than the end of the first week of the examination semester. Students in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies will determine the emphases of the examinations.

• At that time students will consult with the Director of Graduate Studies regarding five possible topics for the examination in Latin literature, as well as the relevant topics for the second chosen exam. The Director of Graduate Studies will refer students to faculty members in accordance with their expertise regarding specific topics.
• Students planning to take the exam must then submit a written schedule of preparation for each particular topic, including dates of submission of preliminary and revised bibliographies, to the faculty members serving as consultants for the exam. Students must also supply the Director of Graduate Studies with a list of these topics and copies of the preparation schedule for each examination, preferably in the semester before the Comprehensive Examination is to be taken, but no later than the end of the first week of the examination semester.

1. One examination will be devoted to general knowledge of Latin literature (3 hours) and will address topics organized around genres, authors, works and/or themes. Using a standard history (e.g., G. B. Conte, Roman Literature: A History) and other secondary literature in addition to the relevant primary sources, students will prepare the five topics. The Director of Graduate Studies, after consultation with the student and involved faculty members, will compose individual exams including four essay questions based on the five prepared topics; students will choose to write on any three of these. The entire exam will be structured as follows:

   Part I: 8 out of 12 short identifications chosen from the Latin and General lists in Appendix G (45 minutes).

   Part II: three essays (45 minutes each), chosen from the five topics prepared in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies and faculty members.

2. One examination will be devoted to ancient history (3 hours). The ancient history exam will be based on the syllabus exactly as given in Appendix H.

Grading of the Comprehensive Examinations
Grading is on the basis of High Pass, Pass, and No Pass.

High Pass: A superior response on at least 2 of 3 individual comprehensive exams

Pass: An overall satisfactory response

No Pass: Falls below minimum expectations

Two faculty members will grade the examinations; in the event of a disagreement about an examination, the Director of Graduate Studies will ask a third faculty member to arbitrate. The exams will be graded and the results reported to students within two weeks of the examination date.

Students must obtain at least a "Pass" in each section of the examination. Failure to pass one part of the exam will necessitate the retaking of the failed portion of the exam in that same semester (normally within two weeks of the failed exam) at a time to be determined in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies. Students who fail both parts of the examination must retake the entire Comprehensive Examination in the sixth week of the following semester. A second failure on any part of the Comprehensive Examination will result in the student's termination from the graduate program.

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