G7.9 Satisfactory Progress

All PhD students are subject to minimum standards of academic performance and minimum course load requirements as described earlier in this handbook. See G3.2 “Minimum Credit Load for Residency and the Two-Course Rule,” G3.5 “Independent Readings,” G3.6 “Minimum Graduate GPA and Probation” and G3.7 “Incompletes.”

All graduate students who are candidates for a PhD in Spanish Linguistics must take all linguistics courses offered in Department of Spanish and Portuguese for credit each semester, with the following exceptions:

1. In the semester before taking the Preliminary Examination, a doctoral student may take an independent reading (899) designed to work toward the dissertation proposal in lieu of a linguistics course offered in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
2. Students may take up to three courses that count toward their PhD minor in lieu of a Linguistics course offered in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Every time that students request this exemption, they must fill out the appropriate form for purpose (“Exception to the Two-Course Rule for Minor Courses”) to be signed by the advisor and given back to the graduate coordinator.

An audited linguistics course does not count toward the requirement to take all linguistics courses offered in the department every semester until completion of course requirements.

If taking all the linguistics courses offered in the department impedes the student’s progress toward completion of the degree, the student may petition an exception, with the written support of the advisor. This regulation does not apply to students who have passed the PhD preliminary examination.