Ph.D. Option
Description
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, dissertation project, and academic career.
Admissions
Students must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Stanford in one of the participating departments. Ph.D. students enrolled in other departments at Stanford may petition to be admitted to the GPH.
Requirements
Continue satisfactory work in the student's major specialization, in accordance with department requirements.
1. Complete graduate-level course work in the five required areas: classical age, the middle ages, Renaissance and early modern period, the Enlightenment, and modernity, with at least three of the five areas to be covered by the GPH Seminars (HUMNTIES 321-325).*
2. Enroll and participate in HUMNTIES 301, The Graduate Student and Faculty Colloquium, during the quarters the student is enrolled in the required seminars, up through completion of the symposium requirement.
3. Participate in the GPH student symposium, usually at the end of the second year of GPH course work (HUMNTIES 298; registration for units is optional).
4. One quarter of interdisciplinary teaching. Students may apply to TA an undergraduate Humanities course, or may petition to count a departmental teaching assistantship if the course reaches beyond the scope of a single discipline.
5. Reading knowledge of at least one foreign language, ancient or modern, to be certified in the first two years of graduate work.
6. Passing the University oral examination according to the schedule prescribed by the major department with one GPH representative, approved by the director, as a member of the examining committee.
7. Complete Ph.D. dissertation accepted by the dissertation committee which includes one representative of the GPH, approved by the director.
*In exceptional cases, a student may petition to substitute one or two graduate-level seminars from the student's Ph.D. program or cognate field for the corresponding courses in the GPH seminar sequence
1. Complete graduate-level course work in the five required areas: classical age, the middle ages, Renaissance and early modern period, the Enlightenment, and modernity, with at least three of the five areas to be covered by the GPH Seminars (HUMNTIES 321-325).*
2. Enroll and participate in HUMNTIES 301, The Graduate Student and Faculty Colloquium, during the quarters the student is enrolled in the required seminars, up through completion of the symposium requirement.
3. Participate in the GPH student symposium, usually at the end of the second year of GPH course work (HUMNTIES 298; registration for units is optional).
4. One quarter of interdisciplinary teaching. Students may apply to TA an undergraduate Humanities course, or may petition to count a departmental teaching assistantship if the course reaches beyond the scope of a single discipline.
5. Reading knowledge of at least one foreign language, ancient or modern, to be certified in the first two years of graduate work.
6. Passing the University oral examination according to the schedule prescribed by the major department with one GPH representative, approved by the director, as a member of the examining committee.
7. Complete Ph.D. dissertation accepted by the dissertation committee which includes one representative of the GPH, approved by the director.
*In exceptional cases, a student may petition to substitute one or two graduate-level seminars from the student's Ph.D. program or cognate field for the corresponding courses in the GPH seminar sequence