Courses offered by graduate programs at other institutions and through the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium may be taken with the approval of the faculty advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies. This is permissible only if the student is in good academic standing and if a close equivalent is not offered by the Rutgers Graduate Program within a reasonable time period. Students must present to their Faculty Advisor and the DGS a copy of the course description. Students must complete one year of course work within the department before applying to take courses outside; the maximum number of such outside courses is two. This maximum applies to all courses taken outside the department, including those taken in other Rutgers departments, such as History or Philosophy. Students interested in taking courses from departments at Rutgers must also seek approval from their faculty advisor and the DGS prior to registering for the course. Students must be in good academic standing to take classes outside the English department.
English graduate students taking classes outside the English department should meet the coursework deadlines assigned by those instructors, which may be earlier than those assigned by the Graduate English Program. Students who take outside courses must submit the final paper or project for these courses to the English Graduate Office by the appropriate deadline for the semester in question.