- Residence Requirements
Students must be enrolled full-time at the University Nevada,
Las Vegas for a minimum of two consecutive semesters, not including
summer sessions, after admission to the doctoral program. Each
student's advisor or committee chair and the Department's
Graduate Coordinator must approve proposed residency periods and
courses in advance. Once admitted, the student is expected to
enroll continuously, excluding summer sessions. If a program of
study must be interrupted, the student may apply for leave status
not to exceed one calendar year.
- Publication Requirement
By the end of the fourth semester, each student must satisfy a
scholarly product requirement (Review I). This requirement can
be met in one of two ways: students could submit a research study
to a refereed journal; or submit a proposal for a presentation
at an annual conference of a national organization. The student
must be primarily responsible for conceptualizing, carrying out,
and reporting in both of these options. The student is responsible
for obtaining approval of the product from his or her doctoral
committee.
- Comprehensive Examination
Each student must take the comprehensive examination (Review II)
in the last semester of coursework outlined in his/her program
of study. This second formal assessment is a comprehensive examination
that will focus on areas of knowledge that are most relevant to
the student's dissertation topic. The student and his/her
committee will determine the content of this examination. In general,
the format will focus on in-depth reading and writing directly
related to the student's dissertation topic rather than on
the student's mastery of preciously learned core information.
- Dissertation Proposals and Defenses
After successfully completing Review I and Review II, students
can then submit a dissertation proposal to their doctoral committee
and submit the accompanying "Dissertation Prospectus"
form to the Graduate College. The doctoral committee will meet
and determine whether to accept or reject the prospectus. A prospectus
can be accepted provisionally given that the student follows the
committee's suggestions in the dissertation. Upon completion
of the full dissertation, a defense will be scheduled. This defense
will be scheduled and conducted in accordance with the Graduate
College's policies for thesis and dissertation completion.
It is the student's responsibility to file the required "Notification
of Oral or Written Examination" form with the Graduate College
in a timely manner.
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