Foreign Language Requirement

Ph.D. degree in Mathematics

• This departmental requirement may be satisfied by taking and passing a translation examination in Chinese, French, German, Russian or Spanish.
• The translation exam for a particular language is given by a faculty member appointed by the Associate Head for Graduate Programs:
  1. Chinese: Dr. Goong Chen
  2. French: Dr. Jean-Luc Guermond
  3. German: Dr. Thomas Schlumprecht
  4. Russian: Dr. Raytcho Lazarov
  5. Spanish: Dr. Maurice Rojas
• The examiners are provided with a list of books from which a passage for translation is selected. The student can chose the book for the translation but not the passage. The passage for translation is chosen by the faculty member administering the exam. Students and examiners will mutually decide on the time and location for the exam. Dictionaries are allowed but the exam can not be taken home.
• Transfer credit for the foreign language requirement will be allowed if it is course work comparable to courses here at A&M, or if it is passing the ETS exam with a suitable score. Translations administered at other universities will not be accepted.
• Students with demonstrated fluency in one of the designated languages may be exempted by the Graduate Programs Committee from the translation exam. Fluency may be demonstrated in the following ways:
  1. Native language
  2. Extensive university study of or in the language