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Program Requirements

Thesis

Required Course

• ISLA 701 Comprehensive Examination

  Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Islamic Studies

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • Fall and/or Winter

Complementary Courses (30 credits)

30 credits of courses at the 500 level or higher, including 6 credits at the 600 or 700 level of seminars offered by the Institute of Islamic Studies.

ISLA 603 (3 credits): Intro: Research Materials - Islamic Studies is highly recommended.

* Note: ISLA 521D (9 credits) will not count toward the 30 complementary credits.

With the permission of the Institute, up to 6 credits could be taken in other departments at McGill or other institutions.

With the approval of the student's supervisor, courses taken with an IIS faculty member in other departments (i.e., History, Anthropology, Political Science) can count toward the coursework requirements in the same way as ISLA courses.

To avoid over-specialization, a maximum of 9 credits of content courses (i.e., courses that are not primarily devoted to language instruction) can be taken with a single Institute professor.

Language Requirements

All Ph.D. students are required to have completed three years of Arabic language study at the IIS. Students who do not take the third level of Arabic at the Institute may demonstrate their competence by taking a proficiency examination set by the academic staff of the IIS.
In addition to Arabic, all Ph.D. students are required to have completed the equivalent of two years of language study at the IIS of another Islamic language. They may demonstrate competence in this language by taking a proficiency examination set by the academic staff of the IIS. Students are, of course, responsible for whatever higher levels are required for their research.

In addition to English, reading knowledge of one non-Islamic language (usually European) at a level of scholarly competence will be required for the Ph.D. Students must demonstrate their competence in the non-Islamic (usually European) research language by passing the Language Proficiency Examination administered by the Institute.