Research Skills Requirement

Beginning in Fall 2012, M.A. students must achieve one research skill, as described in either (1) or (2) in the list below. Ph.D. students must achieve two research skills: reading knowledge of a modern foreign language (1), plus one of the options listed under (2) 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.

(For students who matriculated prior to Fall 2012, see the research skills requirement here.)

1. Reading knowledge of a modern foreign language. This requirement may be satisfied in one of three 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. Completion of STAT 6210 Statistical Methods I or STAT 6310 Statistical Analysis I

b. Completion of LING 8880 Field Methods in Linguistics

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