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Master of Arts in Religious Studies

The Academic Program

3. Language Requirement

The department requires students to acquire a working knowledge of one language in addition to English during the master's program. The language should help the student work with primary sources or with scholarship in a field of special interest. For example, students electing the religions of South Asia as an emphasis area may take Sanskrit. Those electing New Testament studies may take Greek. Working knowledge may be demonstrated in three ways:

1. 3 credits of intensive language study
2. 6 credits of undergraduate language study (Please note that language classes below 7000 at MU will not count toward the 30 units required for the Master's degree)
3. a reading exam administered by the department faculty. Students who are considering going on to doctoral studies are encouraged to work on a second language as well.

If an exception to the language requirement is appropriate due to the background of a student, the student may request that the requirement be waived. The request must be submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies by the end of the second semester of graduate study. The Director of Graduate Studies will present the request to the department faculty for a decision.

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