Requirements, Rules, and Procedures for Graduate Degrees

While our Graduate Degree Handbooks remain the best source of up-to-date information on our graduate programs' policies and procedures, the following links provide an easily navigatable overview of our program.

• Course Requirements
• Distribution Requirements
• Language Requirements
• Proseminar
• First Year Oral Exam
• Field Examinations
• Dissertation Proposals
• Dissertation Progress
• Dissertation Defense
• Good Standing Rules (Incompletes, Exams, Dissertation Progress)
• Deferring Admission
• Leaves of Absence
• Exchange Programs (from a single course to a full year)
• Graduate Groups and Committees
• William Patrick Day Essay Contest
• Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize
• Graduation -- procedures, deadlines
• Graduate English Calendar, Deadlines, Procedures and Protocols

Can't find what you're looking for? Try the Graduate Catalog, Rules and Regulations in the Vice Provost for Graduate Education's website.