Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Supervisory Committees

 

The School of Graduate Studies requires students to form their Supervisory Committee and submit a Supervisory Committee Form by the end of their second semester in the program.
These committees are responsible for approving the student’s Program of Study after the Portfolio (Qualifying) examination is passed and for drawing up and administering the Comprehensive examination. The Supervisory Committee also serves as the examining committee for the final oral examination.
A doctoral student’s Supervisory Committee consists of at least five faculty members from inside and outside the department of English who are interested in, and able to help with the dissertation. All members of this committee must have doctoral degrees and be approved by the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in accordance with the Utah State University General Catalog. Supervisory Committees must include:
  • three members of the faculty from the written communication areas of the Department of English who are identified as primary faculty members in the TPPC program,
  • one additional faculty member from the Department of English who is not listed as a primary faculty member in the TPPC program, and
  • one faculty member from outside the Department of English
One member of the committee is designated as the student’s chair or major professor. Usually, this will be one of the three primary faculty members in the TPPC program. The student will work the closest with this member.
While students should make every effort to form their full committee by the end of their second semester, the School of Graduate Studies recognizes that students in the TPPC program may need additional time to recruit the committee member from outside the English department. Students may therefore submit their Supervisory Committee form at the end of their second semester with just the four members from inside the English Department. A revised Supervisory Committee form, adding the fifth member from outside the department, must be filed by February 15 in the student’s fourth semester. This revised form will list all five members but need only be initialed by the newly-added member and signed by the department head.

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