Ph.D. in French and Educational Studies

Overview
The French department, jointly with the Division of Educational Studies, offers a Ph.D. in French and Educational Studies. This joint program is cross-disciplinary. It examines and explores French language, culture, and literature as they pertain to teaching, educational issues, research and technology. The focus is designed to prepare participants to teach French, to conduct educational research, and to administer language programs, primarily in post-secondary institutions.

Admission
Requirements are the same as those of the Ph.D. in Educational Studies, with French/ second language acquisition as the area of concentration. Before admission into the joint program, the student must have earned a master's degree in a field of specialization appropriate to the proposed doctoral work in French and Education. All applicants must submit the following documents:

1. A statement of purpose
2. A minimum TOEFL score of 550 for applicants whose native language is not English
3. Competitive GRE scores
4. Three supporting letters of evaluation
5. Transcripts of previous academic performance

All requests for information and applications should be directed to:

Director of Graduate Studies
Department of French & Italian
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Send a duplicate copy of the application to:
Director of Graduate Studies
Division of Educational Studies
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Apply online at https://apply.embark.com/grad/emory/gsas

Course Requirements
A candidate must fulfill the following minimum courses beyond the master's degree:

1. Professional Seminars on Educational Research (8 semester hours)
2. Foundations of Education (12 semester hours)
3. Research Methodology (16 semester hours)
4. Area of Specialization: French (16 semester hours)
5. Dissertation Research (4 semester hours)
6. TATTO, the graduate school's Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity program

Qualifying Examination
The qualifying examination for the joint program in French and Educational Studies has two parts: the comprehensive review of literature and the empirical study. The review of literature should provide evidence of a student's ability to identify an area of educational importance, to synthesize the scholarly knowledge, and to report the findings. The empirical study should confirm that a student can select a question of educational importance, design an empirical study to answer the question, collect and analyze the data, and prepare a final report.

Procedures
By the second year of graduate study, the student should obtain the consent of a faculty member to serve as chair of the empirical study committee or comprehensive review committee. With the advice of the chair, the student will ask at least one additional faculty member to serve on the empirical study committee and on the comprehensive review committee. This second member must be a member of the Division of Educational Studies (DES) faculty. Faculty members from French or other departments may serve as third or fourth members of a committee. In all, there must be at least one member of DES and one faculty member from the French department on the committees. The sequence in which the student undertakes these two papers is left to the discretion of the student and of the student's advisor. The student may begin work on either of these studies at any time, but it is assumed that a student will have completed much of the required course work for the joint Ph.D.

Doctoral Candidacy
Students who will have successfully completed all required course work, the empirical study, and the comprehensive review will obtain the consent of a faculty member to serve as chair of the dissertation committee. The procedure to be followed for the selection of the committee and for the preparation of the dissertation will be the same as the procedures for the qualifying examination papers, except that 1) the dissertation committee will consist of at least three
faculty members and 2) the proposal hearing for the dissertation will be in a formal, open
session, to which all faculty and graduate students will be invited. The dissertation
proposal is expected to be substantially more detailed than the proposals for the qualifying examination. Granted approval of the proposal, the student may apply for candidacy.

Doctoral Dissertation
The dissertation must constitute a contribution to existing knowledge and result from a student's original research. Once the dissertation has been approved by a student's dissertation chair and members of the dissertation committee, a formal open session
will be scheduled for the presentation and defense of the dissertation study.

Departmental Fellowships
Students admitted into the joint Ph.D. program will be recipients of support in the form of five full years (two semesters per year) of fellowships. These fellowships cover full tuition ($30,800 in 2007-2008) and provide an annual stipend ($16,000 in 2007-2008). Recipients of support from the Department of French and Italian will be assigned, beginning in the second year of study and continuing through the third year, four semesters of internship service to the Department of French and Italian. Examples of service activities include teaching and assisting faculty with research projects.

Department of French and Italian, Emory University, 537 Kilgo Circle, Callaway N405, Atlanta, GA 30322