Graduate Program - Doctoral Program
Preparing for Phase II: Forming a doctoral committee
During the middle of the second year of study, students begin to prepare for the second phase of doctoral study, the qualifying process. By the end of the second year or the beginning of the third year, students should have constituted a doctoral committee, completed a LTXX 298 course (in which they have prepared reading lists and chosen a research paper topic), and met with their committee in a pre-qualifying meeting. They thus can begin reading toward the qualifying examination in the summer following the second year of study.