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MA & PhD Programs: Advising Procedure
Advising Procedure |
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On being accepted into the program every new graduate student will meet with the Graduate Coordinator or the Associate Graduate Coordinator (Liaison), who complement each other in that each represents one of the two areas of concentration, literature and linguistics. The student may choose an adviser from among the professors who constitute the English Graduate Committee. Otherwise the Coordinator will assign one. (See list of professors, Appendix C of the Complete Graduate Student Manual).
The adviser can later be changed as the student's program becomes more specialized and focused. Such a change requires only the consent of the initial and new advisers and a letter notifying the Graduate Coordinator. This is the responsibility of the student.
After completion of 24 credits of course work (this applies to the M.A. and the Ph.D.), the student is expected to maintain regular communications with his/her adviser. Failure to "keep in touch" may jeopardize the student's ability to finish the degree. "Lost" students may find their requests for extensions seriously prejudiced, and will suffer from lack of exam and thesis advising, and career counseling as well as in many less tangible ways. The student who does not make full use of an adviser is not likely to derive full benefit from the Graduate Program.
There are other sources of information and guidance as well, and many of the more routine administrative problems relating to registration, deadline, transcripts, etc. can usually be most efficiently solved by the Graduate secretary. (See Appendix D of the Complete Graduate Student Manual for relevant deadlines.)
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