Faster, Recommended Timetable for Full-time PhD Students Ideally, you should make every effort to move more quickly than the required good standing deadlines. Adhering to this faster schedule will give you more time to write your dissertation, and it will also allow you to position yourself better as a publishing scholar. Coursework Years 1 & 2 Year 7 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 (post MA) (if needed) Sem 4: Sem 5: Sem 6: Sem 7&8: Sem 9: Sem 10: Sem 11: Sem 12: Sem 13: Sem exam Sem Coursework, Pass exams by Have Draft 1 or 2 Draft 1 or Draft 1 or Draft 1 Revise and Second Job Draft Exam end of prospectus chapters. 2 2 chapters. or 2 defend search. 1 3: committee. & Proposal in September. approved by chapters. chapters. dissertation. Course- 2: Directed dissertation Turn one Sem 14: Course- Readings Mull, frame committee, by Initial Plan Go on If job search Start turning (76-911) with argument, end of of Work must chapter job successful dissertation work. your exam draft semester. be approved into an market if certify. into a book or work committee prospectus as by the article and set of articles. Select chair. Have you are ABD status Graduate submit it to agrees If job search Certify as exam proposal reading for attained. Committee. a refereed you are unsuccessful, early as and approved by exams. journal. ready. Year 7 feasible but committee, read available as definitely in recruit by program grace year. time to faculty, by the graduate in your end of the May. semester. Present a public paper.
Faster, Recommended Timetable for Full-time PhD Students Ideally, you should make every effort to move more quickly than the required good standing deadlines. Adhering to this faster schedule will give you more time to write your dissertation, and it will also allow you to position yourself better as a publishing scholar. Coursework Years 1 & 2 (post MA) Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 (if needed) Sem 1 & 2: Course- work Sem 3: Course- work. Select and recruit your exam committee. Sem 4: Coursework, Draft Exam Proposal in Directed Readings (76-911) with your exam committee chair. Have exam proposal approved by committee, read by program faculty, by the end of the semester. Present a public paper. Sem 5: Pass exams by end of September. Mull, frame argument, draft prospectus as you are reading for exams. Sem 6: Have prospectus approved by dissertation committee, by end of semester. ABD status attained. Sem 7&8: Draft 1 or 2 chapters. Initial Plan of Work must be approved by the Graduate Committee. Sem 9: Draft 1 or 2 chapters. Sem 10: Draft 1 or 2 chapters. Turn one chapter into an article and submit it to a refereed journal. Sem 11: Draft 1 or 2 chapters. Go on job market if agrees you are ready. Sem 12: Revise and defend dissertation. If job search successful certify. If job search unsuccessful, Year 7 available as grace year. Sem 13: Second Job search. Sem 14: Start turning dissertation into a book or set of articles. Certify as early as feasible but definitely in time to graduate in May.
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