Degree Requirements
- A Doctor of Philosophy Plan of Work form
must be submitted to the Ph.D. office no later than completion of 40
credit hours and before the student may achieve candidacy. Students
are encouraged to file a Plan of Work after 9 credits have been
completed or after the first semester of doctoral work.
- Candidacy is reached after the Plan
of Work has been approved, the final Qualifying Examination has been
passed, approximately 50 credit hours have been completed, and the
dissertation committee has been named.
- Students must complete four semesters of candidacy status (9991,
9992, 9993, 9994) before graduating. If four semesters of candidacy status
are completed before graduating students may register for candidacy
maintenance (9995).
- A doctoral student must complete an oral
exam. This exam may be part of the Qualifying Exam, a prospectus
meeting, a lecture or seminar, or some other format approved by the
student’s department. If the oral exam is part of the
Qualifying Exam it must be completed within 60 days of the written
portion of the exam.
- A Ph.D. student may register for up to, but not more than 12 credits of
pre-doctoral dissertation research (9990) before becoming a
candidate.
- The dissertation committee director and at
least one member must hold a regular Graduate Faculty appointment.
Students may verify appointments by consulting the
Graduate Faculty
Roster.
- The doctoral student's official dissertation committee is recorded
on the Candidacy form and the Prospectus
form which is submitted with a dissertation prospectus. Any
changes to the committee must be requested in writing. These requests
should be submitted to the Ph.D. Office of the Graduate School. The
memo should explain the reason for the change in committee. It should
also have the signature(s) of the committee member(s) removed,
the signature(s) of the committee member(s) added, as well as the
signatures of the doctoral advisor and the departmental Graduate
Officer. At least two committee members must hold regular Graduate
Faculty appointments. Graduate Faculty Appointment forms and guidelines
are available online.
http://www.gradschool.wayne.edu/GradFaculty/gradfacultyapp.html
- A format check of the final draft of the dissertation manuscript
must be done at least two weeks prior to the Dissertation Public
Lecture - Defense or by the deadline
date listed for the current semester. Students should plan to leave the manuscript at
least overnight with the Ph.D. Office for the format check. See
the templates for format
requirements. Corrections will be provided on a comment sheet attached
to the manuscript and must be made before the dissertation may be
approved.
- Doctoral forms (Commencement Reply, Microfilm Agreement, and Survey)
will be given to the student when the format check has been completed.
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