Meet with your supervisor regularly and complete progress reports each year.
- See course and program requirements for your Â鶹AV degree.
- Monitor your progress towards your degree.
- Receive reminders of upcoming or missed academic milestones in thesis graduate programs.
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Fall & Winter
Students in Ph.D. 1 have been accepted into the program without a Master's Degree, or with a Master's Degree in an unrelated field, and complete a series of additional preparatory courses during this year.
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Fall
- Study plan: Complete and approve plan for degree, including timing of courses and academic milestones (e.g., comprehensive examination, progress tracking).
- Additional required courses
- Required courses
- Colloquium attendance
- Select and meet with supervisor(s)
- By December 15:
Progress Report, Letter of Understanding and Study Plan
Winter
- Additional required courses
- Required seminars
- Colloquium attendance
- Progress Report
Summer
- Draft of comprehensive bibliography
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Fall
- Complete coursework
- Colloquium attendance
- Complete comprehensive bibliography
- Notification of intention to take comprehensive exam in Winter (Nov. 1)
- Submit comprehensive bibliography (Dec. 1)
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Winter
- Colloquium attendance
- Comps written exam (Apr. 1)
- Comps Oral exam (May)
- Progress report
Summer
- Thesis research (e.g., research design and ethics application preparation)
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Fall
- Thesis Proposal & oral presentation
- Thesis Research (e.g., Ethics approval, data collection)
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Winter
- Thesis Research (e.g., data collection and analysis)
- Progress report
Summer
- Thesis research (e.g., data collection and analysis, write-up)
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Fall
- Thesis research
Winter
- Thesis research
- Progress report
Summer
- Thesis research
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Fall
- Thesis research
- Final thesis submission
- December submission for Spring graduation
Winter
By end of PhD 6
- Thesis submission if not yet done, for Fall defense, Winter graduation
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Progress Reports and Degree Audit Forms
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Graduate Progress Report Guidelines, Graduate Student Progress Tracking Report and Audit Forms can be found HERE
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