Reading Department Office
Mary Unser, Secretary email

Linda Papa, Secretary  email

OVERVIEW
About the PhD Program

Inquiries

Listing of Dissertations since 1972

Admissions

PROGRAM PLANNING
Program Planning Guide

Program Planning worksheet

Advanced Standing (transfer courses)

COURSEWORK
Reading courses

Research methods courses

Allied courses

Continuous Enrollment

EXAMINATIONS

Comprehensive Exam

Specialization Exam

RESEARCH TOOLS
Requirements

DISSERTATION

Dissertation Committee

Proposal

Candidacy

Human Subjects review

Undertaking the dissertation

Oral examination

Submitting the final dissertation

ASSISTANTSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
Overview

Application

OTHER INFORMATION
Statute of Limitations

Residency

Annual Review

Forms

Dissertation Proposal

Having passed the Specialization Examination, you will write a dissertation research proposal that is 15-20 pages long and resembles the kind of proposal that might be submitted to a potential funding agency. The literature review in the proposal must be focused and selective, and the focus will be on the rationale for the study, the research questions, the research design, and the data collection and analysis procedures. The data collection and analysis procedures must be specified in considerable detail.

A complete strong draft of the proposal will be presented to the entire Reading Department faculty for critique and substantive feedback. Your committee must approve this proposal for presentation before you can submit it to the department. You must revise the proposal as your committee deems necessary and the committee must approve the final proposal. The committee cannot evaluate the proposal until the Specialization Examination has been passed.