German

5-Year BA/MA Program

For qualified students, the Department of World Languages and Cultures offers a Five-Year BA-MA program with a BA major in German and a non-thesis MA major in German. The primary component of the program is that a qualified student may take up to 9 hours of approved graduate courses for their senior undergraduate electives and have them count toward both the BA degree and the MA degree. Qualifications for admission to the program are:

The student must have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.0 and a cumulative GPA of 3.5 in undergraduate German courses to be considered for admission to the program.
Conditional and full admission of a student into this program must be approved by the Department of World Languages and Cultures and by the Graduate School.
Conditional admission may be granted after completing 64 hours of the requirements for the BA in German, as specified by any Undergraduate Catalog in effect during that student’s attendance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, provided that the Catalog has been in effect within six years of the date of graduation.
Conditional admission must be obtained before taking a graduate course that is to be used to satisfy the requirements of both the BA degree and the MA degree.
Full admission may be granted after completing 96 hours of the requirements for the BA in German, as specified by any Undergraduate Catalog in effect during that student’s attendance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, provided that the Catalog has been in effect within six years of the date of graduation. A cumulative GPA of 3.5 in undergraduate German courses is required for full admission.
Any course taken for graduate credit prior to satisfying all requirements for the BA degree must be approved by the department head (or designee) and by the Graduate School.
A student will not be eligible for a graduate assistantship until the student has satisfied all of the requirements for the BA degree.

Note: You still apply for graduation for the BA and walk in the graduation ceremony, like all of your peers; this program is really a BA + accelerated MA. You may be eligible to receive funding for the year of MA study through a graduate teaching assistantship. The GTAship comes with a tuition waiver, health insurance, and a stipend; you also gain teaching experience at the introductory level. PLEASE NOTE: The availability of GTAships varies considerably by semester and by program; please address inquiries to the appropriate graduate program coordinator (see below).

*Applications may be submitted after you have completed 64 hours at the undergraduate level, but no later than the second-to-last semester of your BA program.