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A. Coursework Requirement
- Students are required to take ENG 8000 each term in preparation for Part I
of the qualifying examination.
- Upon passing Part I of the qualifying examination, students are required to
take ENG 900T each term in preparation for the thesis and Part II of the
examination.
B. Comprehensive/Qualifying Examination
Advancement to Ph.D. candidature is conditional upon the successful
completion of the following:
Part I: A written examination based on the general reading list approved by
the Graduate Panel.
Part II: An oral examination, in which the areas covered will be based on the
following works submitted by the student:
- A short paper (5,000-7,500 words or 20-30 pages).
- An additional paper (4,000-5,000 words or 16-20 pages) based on a
specialized reading list submitted to and approved by the thesis
committee.
- A long paper (10,000-15,000 words or 40-60 pages) in the intended field of
the thesis, to which a formal thesis proposal should be appended.
Guidelines
The following guidelines must be met by the student in preparing for Part II
of the qualifying examination. The oral examination cannot be taken unless all
the three conditions set below are fulfilled:
- At least one paper (A, B or C) must be based on analysis of specific
text(s).
- At least one area (A, B or C) must involve the treatment of a problem in the
field of genre or period studies.
- At least one area (A, B or C) must involve the treatment of a theoretical
problem in any field of literary or critical studies.
As a general requirement, the Ph.D. student in Literary Studies must present
results of original research in two colloquia by the end of the fourth term.
Topics chosen for the colloquia should be closely related to the areas covered
by the long and short papers subsequently submitted for Part II of the
qualifying examination. The colloquia will be open to all students and faculty
members of the Department. Students are allowed no more than two attempts at
passing the examination or parts thereof. Any second attempt must come within
six months of the first attempt.
C. Other Requirements
- IT Proficiency Test. (Please refer to "Stduent IT Competence")
- Students must complete with satisfactory results at least 6 units of
language courses coded 3000 or above offered by the language departments at CUHK
under the current curriculum. Alternatively, completion with satisfactory
results of any language courses comparable to the year 3 courses offered at CUHK
is also accepted as equivalent qualification. In some cases, a special language
test may have to be arranged in coordination with the language departments in
order to examine students' competence in a third language. Passing the test will
also fulfil the language requirement for Ph.D. candidature.
- Students are required to submit a research thesis and pass an oral
examination for graduation.
- Complete an Improving Postgraduate Learning (IPL) module on "Observing
Intellectual Property and Copyright Law during Research". This will be an online
module and relevant information can be accessed from the website:
www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/programmes/programmes.htm. (Applicable to students
admitted in 2001-02 and thereafter.)
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