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 Graduate Studies Academic Calendar
Winter 2010

Faculty of Arts


About the Faculty of Arts

Doctor of Philosophy Degrees
 
One of the entrance requirements for study at the PhD level in the Faculty of Arts is normally a Master's degree with an A- average in course work. In exceptional circumstances a student may be admitted to a PhD program with an Honours Bachelor's degree.

For students to be recommended for the PhD degree, departments in the Faculty of Arts require all or a combination of the following:

  • completion of specified course work;
  • completion of the language requirement;
  • satisfactory performance in written and/or oral comprehensive examinations;
  • completion of a seminar requirement;
  • internship;
  • submission and defence of a thesis, embodying the results of original research.
Specific details are available in the individual departmental sections or in departmental handbooks.

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