The Department presumes that you will bring additional readings to bear, given your own experiences and education. In some cases, you may have read alternative sources that will serve your purposes as well as the items on the Essentials Reading list. If in doubt about how to prioritize your time for any new readings, talk with your advisor about the list and other reading you have done. Second, that list should prepare you to be able to view educational issues from multiple perspectives. Most often this multiplicity of viewpoint comes out in one's capacity to discuss the limitations of one particular argument or view.
Students receive two questions, and select one to answer, on each day.
Computers are provided upon request, or students may bring their own. The Comps Committee Chair and her assistant arrange for the rooms. Students are allowed to bring any and all lists of references they wish to use to stimulate their memories, as well as one page of notes. The references cannot be annotated. Instead, they should simply be lists of authors and readings that students will find helpful as they recall the literature they have read in preparation for the examinations.