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Students in their fourth year and beyond have the following registration options:-

• Apply for Traveling Scholar status

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• If teaching, register for HAA 380: Graduate Teaching (8 credits) and HAA 399: Direction of Doctoral Dissertation (8 credits)

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• Register for HAA 399: Direction of Doctoral Dissertation (16 credits)

The Department currently offers instruction in the following broad fields of the history of art and architecture:

• African
• Greek and Roman
• East Asian
• Islamic
• Latin American
• Medieval/Byzantine/Armenian
• Modern (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)
• Modern (twentieth century) and Contemporary
• Renaissance and Baroque (fifteenth through eighteenth centuries)
• South Asian

The graduate curriculum is designed to ensure breadth across the discipline, both in terms of field distribution and methodology. Students must take one course in at least three fields of art and/or architectural history other than their own. For students working on art and architecture in Europe and North America, one of those courses must be in the art and architecture of Asia, Africa, Latin America, or the indigenous art of North America. For students working on art and architecture in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, one of the required courses must be in the art and architecture or of Europe or North America. Non-field-specific courses such as HAA 201, "The Study of Architectural History: Issues and Methodology," or HAA 206, "Science and the Practice of Art History," may be taken in place of one of the three field requirements. In non-field-specific courses, a topic should be studied which promotes extra diversification methodologically and geographically.

Students may instead wish to develop a minor field in which a cluster of three courses must be taken. In that case, the regular field distribution requirement is waived, but one course outside the double fields is required to ensure breadth. As above, in non-field-specific courses, a topic should be studied which promotes extra diversification methodologically and geographically. Students pursuing a minor filed outside the department still must meet departmental distribution requirements.

If a course falls between two fields of study (which is commonly the case in our team-taught courses), it is important to specify the field, and to clarify the arrangement with the DGS during the semester the course is taken. In such cases the requirement may be considered as fulfilled if the main paper assignment is in the field of the requirement; individual cases are to be presented to the DGS in consultation with the instructor, and when relevant with the adviser. It is the student's responsibility to clarify such special arrangements with the DGS.

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• The requirements for languages should be met by the end of the fourth semester. These are fulfilled by taking a course in a given language, or by studying it abroad in one of the institutions commonly used for this purpose. No formal exams are required.
• The completed and approved qualifying paper (with signed QP cover form) should be filed in the department office not later than June 1 of the 4th semester in residence.
• Students are expected to take the General Examination in the third year of residence. A preliminary dissertation proposal (Thesis Prospectus) is required at the time of petition to take the General Examination. A final and approved Thesis Proposal is required within three months of passing the General Examination.
• G4+ students are required to submit a progress report to the department of dissertation research and writing by December 15 of each year.
• The final draft of the dissertation should be submitted to the readers at least six weeks prior to the registrar's deadline. Once the two readers have informed the director of graduate studies that the dissertation is “approved for defense,” the candidate may schedule the date, room, and time for the defense in consultation with the department and the appointed committee. Once the defense is passed, the approved final version of the dissertation will be submitted to the FAS Registrar’s Office (https://gsas.harvard.edu/degree-requirements/dissertations/submitting-your-dissertation).

Course Requirements

• A total of sixteen, 4-credit courses are required for academic residence.
• One 4-credit course must be HAA 310 (310a & 310b count as one course). 
• At least nine 4-credit courses must be chosen from the offerings of the History of Art and Architecture Department. 
• Students must take one course in at least three fields of art/architectural history other than their own. For students working on art and architecture in Europe and North America, one of those courses must be in the art and architecture of Asia, Africa, Latin America, or the indigenous art of North America. For students working on art and architecture in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, one of the required courses must be in the art and architecture or Europe or North America. Non-field-specific courses may be taken in place of one of the three field requirements. In non-field-specific courses, a topic should be studied which promotes extra diversification both methodologically and geographically. 
• Students may wish to develop a minor field in which a cluster of three courses must be taken. In that case, the regular field distribution requirement is waived, but one course outside the double fields is required to ensure breadth. A non-European/North American course must be taken if a European/North American field is both the primary and minor field and a European/North American course must be taken if an Asian, African, or Latin American field is both the primary and minor field. As above, in non-field-specific courses, a topic should be studied which promotes extra diversification methodologically and geographically. 
• If a course falls between two fields, it is important to specify the field, and to clarify the arrangement with the DGS during the semester the course is taken. 
• Field distribution and 200-level course requirements may be fulfilled by the same course but may not be counted twice towards the 16. 
• Five 4-credit courses, in addition to HAA 310, must be primarily for graduates at the 200-level or the equivalent (e.g. 100 level seminars); partial credit may be given for graduate-level courses from other institutions, in which the student participated while enrolled in HAA.
• Two 4-credit courses may be in any language(s) appropriate for your field of research. SAT/UNSAT courses may not be counted towards the 16 for the Ph.D.  If you take two languages as SAT/UNSAT you may substitute an HAA 300 course in the total 16 for the two languages.
• Graduates enrolled in undergraduate lecture courses will not be required to fulfill additional requirements.
• The examination of graduates enrolled in undergraduate lecture courses will be of the same format as those for the undergraduates, but it may be tailored to a graduate level, as long as this does not lead to a quantitative increase. For example: when the examination consists of a written exam, a separate set of questions might be designed for the graduate students; or the questions might be the same, but the results judged by higher standards.
• Graduate students can request a course upgrade. For this, they will need the consent of the teaching faculty member and the approval of the DGS.
• Variation in course requirements will be considered only through written request to the department after consultation with the DGS and a faculty adviser.

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Grading Criteria for Graduate Students

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