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Quick-Guide-to-Preliminary-Exams
Reading List Samples
17th C. Devotional Literature – Calloway (90 min.)
Pre-1900 American Literature – Fulton (two 3 hr. exams)
Old English Lit – Marsh (90 min.)
Alternative Voices_ – Ford – (3 hrs.)
Feminist Theory – Ferretter (90 min.)
Medieval Literature – Hanks (3 hrs.)
Medieval Literature – Hanks (90 min.)
Contemporary American Ferretter #2 (3 hrs.)
Contemporary American – Ferretter (3-hrs.)
Cormac McCarthy – Barcus (3 hrs.)
Modern American – Ford (3 hrs.)
Modern British and Irish – Russell #2 (90 min.)
Modern British and Irish – Russell (3 hrs.)
Modern British and Irish – Russell (90 min.)
Religion – 20th Century Ethics – Martens (3 hrs.)
Religion – Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cen. – Whitford (3hrs.)
Religion and Lit – Donnelly (3hrs.)
Religion and Lit – Ferretter (3 hrs.)
Religion and Lit – Wood (3 hrs.)
Religion and Literature (focus on American Identity) – Wood (3 hrs.)
17th Century British – Ray (90 min.)
Early Modern Women Writers – Hunt (3 hrs.)
Renaissance Literature – Hunt (3 hrs.)
Shakespeare and Other Ren. Dramatists – Hunt (3 hrs.)
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cen. – Donnelly (3hrs.)
Rhetoric and Composition – Exams by DePalma, Pittman, and Alexander
Nineteenth Century British (90 min.)
Victorian Women Writers – Pond (90 min.)
Victorian Literature — Pond (90 min.)
Theological Aesthetics — Ferretter (3 hrs.)
Modern British Literature — Losey & Russell (3 hrs.)
Dissertation Authors — Gardner (90 min.)
Prospectus Samples
Courtney Bailey Parker – Prospectus