COURSE WORK TO PRELIMS

Major field (4 courses):

   (594 if topic in major field) &   _______________   ________________   ________________

Minor field 1 (2 courses):      ____________________   ____________________

Minor field 2 (2 courses):      ____________________   ____________________

optional unexamined minor field (2 courses)____________________   ____________________

Note: One course may be used for two fields if necessary.

Methods courses (2 courses). Usually History 593 plus “Social Theory” or another departmental methods course, or a course from outside department by petition to DGS.     History 593 (Approaches)   &   ___________________

To check (included in above count):

- At least one field must be Comparative/Thematic

- Chronological distribution (a field and exam in whole or part pre-1815): 

- Geographic distribution (a field substantially different from main geog. field):

- Research “seminars” (2 if entering with MA; 3 if entering with BA -- with at least two different faculty advisers.)

     History 594 (Res. Sem.)  &  _______________  [if BA:  ______________ ]

COURSE CREDIT MINIMUMS FOR PHD:

-- If enter with MA: 10 (40 hours) – with DGS approval, MA students may count 2 courses from MA program

-- If enter with BA: 16 (64 hours) – in addition to 10 courses for fields and methods, 3 “elective” and 3 “shadow” courses

-- Graduate College: 96 hours (the additional comes mostly from dissertation writing)

“Electives” (including non-history, languages, etc):               

“Shadow” (Graduate teaching [when TA], Prelim. study, diss. proposal workshop):

Languages    1.                                   2.                      (unless US)

OTHER:

● Select Dissertation Advisor (by the end of first year)

● First-year meeting with Director of Graduate Study (end of first year)

● Second-year meeting with Director of Graduate Study (end of second year)

● Predissertation summer travel grant (typically between second and third year if entering with MA)

● PhD Portfolio Review (due Sept. 15 or Feb. 15 to start exams following semester)

● Preliminary Exam Schedule (due by last day of classes in the semester before you intend to begin taking exams)

● Proposal writing workshop

PRELIMS THROUGH DISSERTATION

Preliminary Exams and Oral Prelim   (completed within two successive semesters, excluding summer—schedule submitted by last day of classes before semester exams begin).

Major field: …………………………………………………………………………...   Date of exam: …………………………………

    Examiners:  _________________________   _________________________

Minor field 1 …………………………………………………………………………... Date of exam: …………………………………

    Examiners:  _________________________   _________________________

Minor field 2 …………………………………………………………………………... Date of exam: …………………………………

    Examiners:  _________________________   _________________________

 

Oral preliminary exam (proposal defense)  _________________________

  -- Schedule immediately after receiving results from last written exam (but plan ahead).

  -- Min. 4 members: advisor and at least one from each written exam.

 

Dissertation committee formed__________________ (as soon as all exams are passed)

Chair:

Other members (min. 4, including chair, of whom “at least three must be members of the Graduate Faculty, and at least two of whom must also be tenured at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois”).

Annual Progress Reports: ______________  (including reports to you from advisor)

Dissertation pre[defense:________________

“Final examination” (Dissertation defense) (usu. 3-6 months following pre-defense):_______________

NB. Expectations of overall progress:

Students entering with MA: Dissertation completion and defense in 6th or 7th year.

Students entering with BA: Dissertation completion and defense in 7th or 8th year.