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