The Doctor of Philosophy requires ninety credits beyond the baccalaureate degree, thirty of which must be earned as dissertation credits. A minimum of between forty-five to forty-eight credits on the graduate level in the field of major concentration, and nine to twelve credits in one minor field. The total program must include thirty credits (excluding dissertation direction) at the 7000 level or above. All students are required to take a 7010 course (Introduction to Literary Theory) and all students with a graduate teaching assistantship must take LGL 5850: Foreign Language Instruction. Admission to this program is contingent upon admission to the Graduate School. The application for admission and transcripts of all previous college work should be filed in the Graduate School at least three months in advance of the time the applicant plans to register. A letter giving information on the applicant's educational background, experience, objectives, oral fluency in the language, or proposed major concentration and other data of interest to an evaluating committee should be sent by the applicant as soon as possible to the Chairperson of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

IELTS 6.5 (overall band), 79 internet-based (iBT and iBT Home Edition) 550 paper-based (PBT)