Year One

  • All students receive non-service fellowships.
  • Fall: All students take GRS AM 736 and three other classes
  • Spring: All student take GRS AM 735 and three other classes. Most post-MA students will complete their coursework.
  • Spring: All students complete their foreign language requirement. Students can transfer credit for a foreign language if it was fulfilled as part of another graduate degree.

Year Two

  • Students begin their four-semester teaching fellowship requirement.
  • Fall: Post-BA students continue with their coursework.
  • Spring: Post-BA students continue with their coursework.
  • Spring: Post-MA students complete their major paper requirement.

Year Three

  • All students continue the teaching fellowship requirement
  • Fall: Post-BA students complete their coursework and the major paper requirement.
  • Fall: Post-MA students take their qualifying oral exams.
  • Spring: Post-BA students take their qualifying oral exams.

Year Four

  • All students receive non-service fellowships.
  • Students submit their prospectus and begin writing their dissertations

Year Five

  • All students receive non-service fellowships.
  • Students continue writing their dissertations.
  • Spring: Students will defend their dissertation and graduate!

Years Six and Seven

  • Students needing additional time to complete their dissertations may find their own funding either at BU or through external fellowships during the sixth and seventh year.