Overview
About the program
In addition to the department’s traditional strength in literary and intellectual history, faculty and students are conducting research in German cinema, critical theory, language pedagogy, medieval studies, travel literature, as well as postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and transnational studies.
The department at the University of Toronto offers a graduate program of study in the field of Germanic Literature, Culture and Theory, leading to a Doctor of Philosophy.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- German Studies Seminar: Culture, Theory, Text
- Yiddish Language and Literature for German Speakers
- Middle High German
- Medieval German Romance: Tristan und Isolde
- Goethe's Faust
- Topics in German Literary Studies
- The Poetics of Madness
- Romanticism
- Revolutions
- Origins: Myths of Beginning in German Literature and Thought
- Modernism in Context
- Theatre in the Weimar Republic
- Kafka
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
German and Scandinavian studies View 4 other PhDs in German and Scandinavian studies in CanadaAcademic requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Admission to the PhD program requires an appropriate master's degree in German from a recognized university, with an average grade equivalent to at least a University of Toronto A– in the applicant's overall program.
- Applicants must satisfy the department that they are capable of independent research in German at an advanced level.
- Applicants should arrange for three supporting letters to be sent to the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies of the department, preferably on forms available from the department.
- Admission is based upon the applicant's academic record, a writing sample, a Letter of Intent (500-word maximum), and the evidence of the supporting letters.
Tuition Fee
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months. -
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months.
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