Review Calendar and departmental policies for your program.
Begin course work.
In consulation with your Advisor and the Graduate Coordinator, select, confirm and submit your Advisory Committee and Graduate Degree Program Form to the Graduate Program Assistant. Your Graduate Degree Program form should list at least 2 lecture courses plus CHEM*7950 (Ph.D. Seminar), UNIV*7000 (Doctoral Qualifying Exam) and CHEM*7990 (Ph.D. Defence).
Start thinking about and looking at the possible dates for your CHEM*7950 Ph.D. seminar and your UNIV*7000 Doctoral Qualifying Exam to be held in your second semester.
Begin leterature review and develop research proposal for CHEM*7950 for the next semester.
Directly after your CHEM*7950 seminar, you will hold your first advisoty committee meeting and dicuss the format for the upcoming UNIV*7000 (Doctoral Qualifying Exam).
UNIV*7000 (Doctoral Qualifying Exam) to be held within six (6) weeks of CHEM*7950 and completed within the same (2nd) semester.
The remaining time to completion depends on several parameters inlcuding the success of your project, your work ethic and the expectations of you and your advisory committee.
Once your advisory committee judges that sufficient research has been completed then you can complete writing your thesis.
*Both PhD Direct Transfer from B.Sc. and PhD direct Transfer from M.Sc. students will do their CHEM*7950 (Ph.D. Seminar) and UNIV*7000 (Doctoral Qualifying Exam) in their 5th semseter. As such they will be required to select their committee and book their CHEM*7950 in their 4th Semester (Semester 1 of the Ph.D. timeline).
During the last two semesters:
Complete writing in conjunction with feedback from your advisor.
Discuss possible timing of defence with your advisor and advisory committee.
With the Graduate Program Assistant, ensure that all necessary paperwork is in place for your defence.
Make sure you essentially have a final version of your thesis, make copies and submit to your advisory committee for comments, corrections and approval
Confirm that an external reviewer has been identified and invited.
