Meet with your supervisor regularly and complete progress reports each year.
- See course and program requirements for your McGill degree.
- Monitor your progress towards your degree.
- Receive reminders of upcoming or missed academic milestones in thesis graduate programs.
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Fall & Winter
Students in PhD 1 have been accepted into the program without a Master's Degree, or with a Master's Degree in an unrelated field, and complete a series of additional preparatory courses during this year.
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Fall
- Progress report, Letter of Understanding and Study plan: Complete and approve plan for degree, including timing of courses and academic milestones (e.g., comprehensive examination, progress tracking).
- Additional required courses
- 1-3 seminars
- Colloquium attendance
Winter
- Additional required courses
- 1-3 seminars
- Colloquium attendance
Summer
- Comprehensive exam part I
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Fall
- 1-2 seminars
- Colloquium attendance
Winter
- Colloquium attendance
- Comprehensive examination Part II
- Progress report
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Summer
- Thesis research
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Fall
- Thesis Proposal and presentation
Winter
- Thesis research
- Progress report
Summer
- Thesis research
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Fall
- Thesis research
Winter
- Thesis research
- Colloquium presentation (must be completed prior to dissertation submission)
- Progress report
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Summer
Thesis research
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Fall
- Thesis research
- Final thesis submission
- December submission for Spring graduation
Winter
By end of PhD 6
- Thesis submission if not yet done, for Fall defense, Winter graduation
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Progress Reports and Degree Audit Forms
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Graduate Progress Report Guidelines, Graduate Student Progress Tracking Report and Audit Forms can be found HERE
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