Is it advisable to wait to learn a fourth language until entering graduate school?
It would be best to begin learning an additional language sooner rather than later. Often students who need a third foreign language have to use the summer months to acquire it or take language courses during regular semesters in addition to their full course load. The work load in graduate school is heavy, and while students may take language courses alongside their advanced coursework, they will not receive graduate credit for this work. Is it possible to transfer to a joint Comparative Literature program (CL/Classics; CL/Film; CL/Renaissance Studies) after some time of graduate studies, or should one apply for a joint program from the start? Usually one can be enrolled in a combined program only if one applies for it from the outset. The joint applications are read and vetted by both departments, and both combine their fellowship resources to admit such students. Only very occasionally have students already in one program received internal permission to design an ad hoc joint progra
