Departmental Forms and Guidelines
College Forms
- Status Selection Forms (Declare Master’s Thesis or Non-Thesis; Change Your Concentration)
- Required Non-Course Milestone Forms (Report Completion of: Foreign Language or Research Requirement; Comprehensive Exams; MA Thesis Committee Appointment; MA Thesis or PhD Dissertation Prospectus Defense)
- Final Project Forms (Report Completion of: MA Non-Thesis Capstone Project; PhD and MA Thesis)
- Graduation Exit Surveys (Take College of Arts & Sciences Exit Survey; Survey of Earned Doctorates)
- More College Forms and Resources
Ph.D. Students
- Declaration of Intent PhD
- Declaration of Intent MA-in-passing
- Guide to Qualifying Exams (reflecting revised methods sequence)
- Guide to Qualifying Exams (F2012 catalog and prior)
- Request for Graduate Foreign Language Reading Examination
- Report for Comprehensive and Qualifying Examinations Form
M.A. Students
- Declaration of Intent MA Thesis or Non-Thesis
- MA Non-Thesis Procedures
- MA Thesis Procedures
- Manuscript Review Process
- Non-thesis and Studio Thesis Approval Form
- Non-thesis and Studio Thesis Approval Form
- POLS M.A. Requirements
- POLS 4+1 Requirements
- Experiential Learning Application
- Capstone Project Application Form
For All Students
- Registration Assistance (Approvals, prerequisite overrides, section overflows, and other types of assistance)
- Graduate Assistant Policy 8-1-17
- Graduate Handbook 2020-2021
- Research Skills for POLS
- Thesis & Dissertation Proposal Guidelines
- Thesis and Dissertation Template
- Using the Thesis and Dissertation Template
- Foreign Language or Research Requirement Form
- Appointment of Doctoral Dissertation or Master’s Thesis Committee Form
- Proposal/Prospectus Approval Form for Doctoral Dissertation or Master’s Thesis
- Doctoral Dissertation or Master’s Thesis Approval Form