Graduate Program in Humanities
The Graduate Program in Humanities (GPH) provides graduate students in different disciplines an opportunity to broaden their knowledge of intellectual and cultural history by focusing on texts and ideas which have been central to all humanistic disciplines from the ancient world to the present. The program's seminars usually focus on specific topics or issues in the context of historical, literary, philosophical, religious, and other disciplinary and theoretical orientations. The program provides a unique opportunity to study highly influential texts with a view to their relevance to the student's own disciplinary field.
GPH members must either be admitted directly to the M.A. Program in Humanities (for Stanford undergraduates, a coterminal BA/MA in Humanities is also an option) or be working toward a Ph.D. in one of the participating academic department at Stanford (see below). Doctoral students who complete the requirements for their departments and the GPH are awarded doctoral degrees designating both their primary specialization "and Humanities" (e.g., Ph.D. in History and Humanities, Ph.D. in Philosophy and Humanities).
Ph.D. students may register for the program at any time in their graduate career, but they do so usually during the first quarter of graduate study. Members of the program are given first preference in registration for all of its offerings. Students complete the five GPH seminars (HUMNTIES 321-325) as well as participate in the Graduate Student and Faculty Interdisciplinary Colloquium in Humanities. (By petition, students may substitute for one or two of the GPH seminars an equivalent graduate seminar offered by their own or another relevant department.) The course of study culminates in the GPH student symposium, which is developed and organized by the students in the program.
Although students in the GPH generally complete the program course work in their first two years of graduate study, requirements of some participating departments may necessitate completion of the GPH over three years. In some instances, one or more of the GPH seminars may fit within the requirements of the student's home department, and the student may petition the program for a substitution.
The following are participating departments and programs: Art and Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, Education, English, French and Italian, German Studies, History, Modern Thought and Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese.
Doctoral students from other departments may participate with consent of their home departments and approval of the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.
GPH members must either be admitted directly to the M.A. Program in Humanities (for Stanford undergraduates, a coterminal BA/MA in Humanities is also an option) or be working toward a Ph.D. in one of the participating academic department at Stanford (see below). Doctoral students who complete the requirements for their departments and the GPH are awarded doctoral degrees designating both their primary specialization "and Humanities" (e.g., Ph.D. in History and Humanities, Ph.D. in Philosophy and Humanities).
Ph.D. students may register for the program at any time in their graduate career, but they do so usually during the first quarter of graduate study. Members of the program are given first preference in registration for all of its offerings. Students complete the five GPH seminars (HUMNTIES 321-325) as well as participate in the Graduate Student and Faculty Interdisciplinary Colloquium in Humanities. (By petition, students may substitute for one or two of the GPH seminars an equivalent graduate seminar offered by their own or another relevant department.) The course of study culminates in the GPH student symposium, which is developed and organized by the students in the program.
Although students in the GPH generally complete the program course work in their first two years of graduate study, requirements of some participating departments may necessitate completion of the GPH over three years. In some instances, one or more of the GPH seminars may fit within the requirements of the student's home department, and the student may petition the program for a substitution.
The following are participating departments and programs: Art and Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, Education, English, French and Italian, German Studies, History, Modern Thought and Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese.
Doctoral students from other departments may participate with consent of their home departments and approval of the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.