Research Skills Requirement

Ph.D. and M.A. students must achieve two research skills, as described below. Courses taken to satisfy this requirement cannot be counted among the courses on the student's Program of Study if they are undergraduate courses.

1. Reading knowledge of a modern foreign language. This requirement may be satisfied in one of 3 ways:

a. Receiving a passing grade on a departmental foreign language translation test. These tests are offered once a semester by Romance Languages, Germanic and Slavic, and other departments.

b. Earning a grade of B or higher in any UGA foreign language course at the intermediate (2000) level or above.

c. Earning a grade of B or higher in a translation course, such as GRMN 3500 Techniques of Translation, FREN 2500 French for Reading Knowledge, or SPAN 2500 Spanish for Reading Knowledge.

2. One of the following options:

a. Reading knowledge of a second modern foreign language, which can be satisfied as described in 1 above.

b. Earning a grade of B or higher in any UGA course at the 1000-level or above that teaches a modern non-Indo-European language (e.g., an Asian or African language). Click here for a list of language courses offered at UGA.

c. Earning a grade of B or higher in a historical language course (e.g. Sanskrit, Old English, Gothic, etc.). Click here for a list of language courses offered at UGA.