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By the fall semester of Third Year, students should select an exam committee and complete the final two portions of the comprehensive exam (publishable article/annotated bibliography). Once exams are completed, students should select a dissertation committee and, in consultation with their dissertation chair, begin work on the prospectus with the goal of defending it early in the Spring semesterand collaboratively develop a timeline for a timely defense. Students continue to participate in the Future Professoriate Project, work with their teaching mentor, complete their teaching portfolio and earn the Teaching Associate Certificate in University Teaching. Students should continue to present papers at conferences, and to develop their research into journal articles when appropriate.
Students who have followed the degree timeline to this point will have the Fourth and Fifth Year available for dissertation writing and polishing as well as career development. Students work with the program's Job Market Working Group and begin the job search, making applications, preparing for interviews and campus visits. They present their research at conferences and publish journal articles as well as articles; support for developing presentations and articles is available from seminar discussions, discussions with faculty, CCR colloquia, and the Writing Center’s Graduate Writing Groups. Students also complete and defend the dissertation; support is available for this process from your dissertation chair and committee as well as from Writing Groups in the Writing Center, the department, or elsewhere on campus.
What If I Do Not Meet the Milestones?
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