Romance Studies

Basic Requirements: 12 half-courses

1. Required courses:
1. Advanced Language Courses: Three half-courses at the 40 level or above in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in at least two of the three languages being combined, except for 45-level courses.
2. Two half-courses in Romance studies other than tutorials.
3. Four half-courses in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the 70 level or above. At least one half-course in each of the three languages being combined. At least one half-course must treat literature before 1800. At least two of the half-courses in this category must be at the 100 level or above. None of the half-courses in this category may be taught in English.
4. Two half-courses in related fields. These include courses in anthropology, classics, the Core Curriculum, English, government, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, etc. One intermediate or advanced course in a Romance language or Latin may be counted as a related field. The undergraduate adviser in Romance Studies must approve of all courses to be counted as related fields.
2. Tutorial: Sophomore year. Romance Studies 97 (one term). Small-group instruction. Letter-graded.
3. Thesis: Not required.
4. Other information:
1. Pass/Fail: Courses taken for concentration credit may not be taken Pass/Fail.
2. Joint Concentration: Not permitted.
3. Freshman Seminars: With the approval of the undergraduate adviser, up to one Freshman Seminar, for which the student has received a Satisfactory evaluation, may be counted in category 1c.

Romance Studies

Requirements for Honors Eligibility: 14 half-courses

Honors concentrators must take one term of Romance Studies 98: Junior Tutorial, with weekly one-on-one instruction. This will count toward the requirement listed in item 1c of Basic Requirements.

In addition to the Basic Requirements, honors candidates are required to take two terms of Romance Studies 99 (graded SAT/UNS) and complete a thesis. A thesis proposal is made by the honors candidate and approved by the undergraduate adviser in Romance Studies in conjunction with other faculty members and members of the Tutorial Board in the spring term of the junior year.

Also, at the end of their senior year, normally during the Reading Period in May, all honors candidates must take a three-hour written examination, as well as an hour-long oral examination.