School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Graduate)

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American Studies

Website URL:

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/american-studies/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

Rayvon Fouche

Admission Requirements:

Master’s Degree Program Basic Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.0 or equivalent required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required – no minimum score has been set
• Writing Sample:
  An academic paper written in English, consisting of at least 2,500 words

Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.0 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
  Required, with a grade point average of 3.0 or equivalent
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required – no minimum score set
• Writing Sample:
  An academic paper written in English, consisting of at least 2,500 words

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

M.A. and Ph.D. degrees

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Activism, Resistance, and Social Movement Studies
• Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
• Design and Material Cultural Studies
• Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies
• New Media and Popular Cultural Studies
• Science, Technology, and Environment Studies
• Transnational American Studies

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Evelyn Blackwood
Susan Curtis
John Duvall
Leonard Harris
Anne Knupfer
Robert Lamb
Alfred Lopez
Bill Mullen
Venetria Patton
Nancy Peterson
Ronald Stephens

Associate Professor

Samantha Blackmon
TJ Boisseau
Kristina Bross
Cheryl Cooky
Charles Cutter
Marlo David
Nadine Dolby
Joseph Dorsey
Lance Duerfahrd
Rayvon Fouché
Nancy Gabin
Elizabeth Hoffmann
Stacy Holden
Christian Knoeller
Christopher Lukasik
Dawn Marsh
Derek Pacheco
Yvonne Pitts
Ryan Schneider
Kevin Stainback
Sharra Vostral

Assistant Professor

David Atkinson
Lisa Banu
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Jake Burdick
Jennifer Freeman Marshall
Kim Gallon
Nathan Johnson
Ashley Kelly
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Cara Kinnally
Shannon McMullen
Laura Zanotti

Comparative Literature

Website URL:

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/complit/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

Charles S. Ross

Admission Requirements:

Master’s Degree Program Basic Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.0 or equivalent required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required – no minimum score has been set

Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.0 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
  Required, with a grade point average of 3.0 or equivalent
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required – no minimum score set

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

Comparative Literature is a Master of Arts and Ph.D. granting program.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

Comparative Literature at Purdue is especially geared towards studies that cut across traditional national, linguistic, and temporal boundaries, such as Medieval, Renaissance, Postcolonial, and Global studies.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Keith Dickson
Paul B. Dixon
Angelica Duran
Sandor Goodhart
Shaun Hughes
Howard Mancing
William McBride
Daniel Morris
Bill Mullen
Charles Ross
Richard Stockton Rand
Jennifer William
Allen Wood

Associate Professor

Emily Allen
Beate I. Allert
Dorsey Armstrong
Thomas Broden
Kristina Bross
Elena Coda
Lance Duerfahrd
Dino Franco Felluga
Geraldine Friedman
Daniel Hsieh
Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Yonsoo Kim
Christian Knoeller
Benjamin Lawton
Paula Leverage
Robert Marzec
Song No
Aparajita Sagar
Ryan Schneider
Eiji Sekine
Marcia Stephenson

Assistant Professor

Jeffrey Turco

Linguistics

Website URL:

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/linguistics/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

Felicia D. Roberts

Admission Requirements:

Master’s Degree Program Basic Requirements

Our program is primarily interested in MA students intending to complete the Doctoral Degree. Please send us a statement of purpose, telling of your intellectual history and development, and your specific goals in research and teaching. You should also send a writing sample, a graded essay written for one of your upper level undergraduate courses. No applicant will be considered until all the required materials have been received.

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.4 or equivalent required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required - Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical

International Applicant Requirements:

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.4 or equivalent required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required - Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical
• TOEFL for Non-Native English Speakers:
  Minimum Paper-Based Test (PBT) Score Required: 620
  Minimum Internet-Based Test (IBT) Overall Score Required: 77
  With the following minimum section requirements:
  Reading: 19
  Listening: 14
  Speaking: 18
  Writing: 18
• IELTS (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 6.5 or higher will be accepted
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 58 or higher will be accepted

Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements

You should send us a statement of purpose, telling of your intellectual history and development, and of your specific goals in research and teaching. You should also send your MA thesis or publication resulting from it; as a backup, you can send a graded essay written for one of your classes as a master’s student.
No applicant will be considered until all the required materials have been received.

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.4 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
• Not required before admission, but must be completed during the doctoral program with a 3.6 GPA or equivalent.
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required - Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical

International Applicant Requirements:

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.4 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
  Not required before admission, but must be completed
  during the doctoral program with a 3.6 GPA or equivalent.
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required - Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical
• TOEFL for Non-Native English Speakers:
  Minimum Paper-Based Test (PBT) Score Required: 620
  Minimum Internet-Based Test (IBT) Overall Score Required: 77
  With the following minimum section requirements:
  Reading: 19
  Listening: 14
  Speaking: 18
  Writing: 18
• IELTS (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 6.5 or higher will be accepted
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 58 or higher will be accepted

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

• You have the option to apply for either the M.A. or the Ph.D. program

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Margie Berns
Becky Brown
Atsushi Fukada
Shaun Hughes
Laurence B. Leonard
Victor Raskin
Felicia Roberts
Tony Silva
Ronnie Wilbur

Associate Professor

Myrdene Anderson
Elena Benedicto
Robert Channon
Alejandro Cuza
Alexander Francis
Elaine Francis
April Ginther
Lisa Goffman
Mary Niepokuj
Amanda Seidl
Jeffrey Siskind
John Sundquist
Mariko Moroishi Wei

Assistant Professor

Lori A Czerwionka
Olga Dmitrieva
Natalya Kaganovich
Colleen Neary-Sundquist
Daniel J. Olson
Shelley Staples
Jessica Sturm

Programs

• American Studies, PHD
• Comparative Literature, PHD
• Linguistics, PHD

• American Studies, MA
• Comparative Literature, MA
• Linguistics, MA

Courses

• AAS 57400 - Research Methods In African American Studies
• AAS 57500 - Theories Of African American Studies

• AMST 59000 - Directed Readings In American Studies
• AMST 60100 - Introduction To American Studies
• AMST 60200 - Contemporary Issues In American Studies
• AMST 60300 - American Studies Interdisciplinary Project
• AMST 61000 - Transnational American Studies Abroad
• AMST 62000 - Archival Theory And Practice
• AMST 63000 - M A Research Seminar
• AMST 65000 - Reading Seminar In American Studies
• AMST 69500 - American Studies Service Learning/Internship
• AMST 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• CMPL 59000 - Directed Reading In Comparative Literature
• CMPL 63000 - Comparative Literature: Function And Methods
• CMPL 65000 - Seminar In Comparative Literature
• CMPL 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• IDIS 59000 - Directed Reading In Interdisciplinary Studies
• IDIS 59100 - Selected Topics In Interdisciplinary Studies

• LING 50000 - Introduction To Linguistics
• LING 51100 - Phonology I: Descriptive Analysis
• LING 51200 - Phonology II: Theoretical Approaches
• LING 52100 - Syntax I: Syntactic Analysis
• LING 52200 - Syntax II: Issues In Syntax
• LING 53100 - Semantics I: Lexical And Sentential Semantics
• LING 53200 - Semantics II: Formal And Grammatical Semantics
• LING 54100 - Historical Linguistics And Language Change
• LING 56000 - Service Learning In Languages And Linguistics
• LING 56500 - Sociolinguistics
• LING 57000 - Field Methods In Linguistics
• LING 57600 - Latin American Indigenous Languages And Cultures
• LING 59000 - Directed Reading In Linguistics
• LING 59100 - Special Topics In Phonology
• LING 59300 - Special Topics In Semantics
• LING 59400 - Special Topics In Historical Linguistics
• LING 59800 - Special Topics In Linguistics
• LING 61900 - Seminar In Phonology
• LING 62900 - Seminar In Syntax
• LING 68900 - Seminar In Linguistics
• LING 69000 - Individual Seminar
• LING 69800 - Research MA Thesis
• LING 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• WGSS 58500 - Feminist Art Criticism
• WGSS 59900 - Selected Topics In Women’s Gender And Sexuality Studies
• WGSS 68000 - Feminist Theory
• WGSS 68100 - Contemporary Issues In Feminist Scholarship
• WGSS 68200 - Issues In Feminist Research And Methodology

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