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After the faculty advisor has given his/her approval, the thesis is to be submitted to the thesis committee members for their feedback and suggestions. Committee members should be given at least four weeks to provide feedback. At the end of this period, committee members may require students to make changes to the thesis. Only after all committee members have given their approval should a thesis defense date be scheduled. Students should include a faculty member (other than the 3 committee members) to chair the committee. At the Masters level the chair can be from within the Human Development and Family Science Department or from other departments/colleges throughout the University. This person will act as the representative of the Graduate School and will moderate the thesis defense.  Read up on the procedures for graduate students defending theses or dissertations found at the Graduate School graduation requirements page.  All M.S. students must complete a Request for Examination form, at least three weeks prior to your defense date.

Defenses may only be scheduled during the fall and spring semesters. All thesis defenses are open to the public and students are expected to provide the departmental administrative assistant with an abstract of their thesis two weeks prior to the defense. One copy of the thesis should be made available in the departmental office for public reading two weeks prior to the defense. 

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Following approval by the Assessment Committee, students will be allowed to take a semester to complete the review. Students are expected to start the review on the date listed in Table 1. The review should be of high-quality with substantive consideration of the aims and scope of the review, theory, research methods, the question(s) explored, analytic techniques, and future directions for research on the topic. The review should consider literature within the last decade. The review should be of high-quality and should be systematically organized using APA style format. It should not exceed 8,000 words excluding references, Tables, and Figures. The review should be completed independently of advisor input or input from other faculty or students after the review proposal has been approved. The review should be of publishable or near-publishable quality according to the standards of the field, and could be submitted for publication. The calendar for submission dates and decision dates are listed in Table 1. 

 Table 1: Doctoral Comprehensive Examination Due Dates*

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