Graduate Handbook | Degree Progress

Program Overview

First Year, including

• Course registration, requirements, and other considerations
• Advising
• Year-end procedures

Summers

Second Year, including

• Becoming a Teaching Assistant
• Preparing for Qualifying Exams

Third Year, including

• Qualifying Exams
• The Dissertation Prospectus

Dissertation Work

Look Ahead

Though the Degree Progress section of the Graduate Handbook is organized into temporal stages, be sure to keep looking ahead.  One of the keys to a successful graduate career is anticiparing what lies ahead.  Depending on your individual progress, you are likely to find resources further on that may be helpful to you sooner than you had realized.