This timetable is intended to provide a structure for timely completion of the Ph.D. program in the Department of Microbiology. The objectives of the timetable are to keep students proceeding towards the completion of their degree in a proactive fashion.
Year 1:
- Courses
- Laboratory Rotation
- Form Advisory Committee:
- Approves plan of study
- Receives student's research prospectus
- Evaluates and approves student's progress
- Submit Plan of Study to graduate school
- Form & initiate research project
Year 2:
- Advance Research Project
- Complete teaching requirement (if not completed in the first year)
- Prepare preliminary exam preproposal (Ph.D.)
- Committee:
- Approve preproposal (Ph.D.)
- Receives student's research progress presentation
- Evaluates and approves student's progress
Year 3:
- Advance Research Project
- Committee:
- Conducts preliminary exam in first semester (5th semester in program)
- Receives student's research presentation at end of year
- Evaluates and approves student's progress
Year 4 (+)
- Advance Research Project
- Committee:
- Receives student's research presentation each year
- Evaluates and approves student's progress
- Approves dissertation and conducts final exam (earliest likely date)
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