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Graduation Requirements

Advancement to Candidacy

A student can be admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree after completing all required course work, passing the written examination, fulfilling the residency requirement, and having had a dissertation proposal accepted by the committee. Once advanced to candidacy, students must register for at least 9 credits of Ph.D. dissertation credit (969) usually while conducting dissertation research full time. Subsequently, candidates are required to register for Ph.D. sustaining credit (U999) each semester. This is not a full-time registration but only a registration to ensure that the student is active until degree requirements are met.

Dissertation

The dissertation is expected to reflect the results of original and high quality research of significance to preservation studies, written in a scholarly and literary manner worthy of publication. The dissertation is the focal point of this research-oriented degree, and thus the majority of a student’s time will be spent on this component of the degree requirements. Three of the five or more chapters could be considered publishable separately, if appropriate.