What is the Group III (Teaching Field) Exam?
This is a one-hour oral exam that must be passed before the Comprehensive Examinations are taken. The Group III oral exam will be conducted by a three-person committee, chaired by the professor who taught the required Group III course (History 511, 512, or 513) that you took. The exam will focus primarily on content questions from the three courses taken, and on world history conceptual questions. It will also include a few questions on the two semester syllabus you prepared for the required course. If you fail the Group III oral exam, you may retake it once. You must retake it the following semester (excluding summer). Note: Group III requirements apply to all doctoral students who entered the doctoral program in the fall semester of 1998 or thereafter. Students in the doctoral program before fall 1998 may elect to follow the original program of Group I and Group II requirements or may choose to follow the new requirements (including Group III). Please see the graduate program secreta
