General Timetable

Year 1

• Course Work in Accordance with MCGD Track: Requirements (including GENE 900a and GENE 901b First Year Introduction to Research: laboratory rotations and rotation talks, ethics, grant writing, methods in MCGD)
• Choose Thesis Advisor and Department

Year 2

• Course Work (including graduate student seminar)
• Honors Requirement must be met by the end of the second year
• Begin Thesis Research
• Qualifying Examination (generally in the spring term)

Year 3

• Thesis Research
• Teaching Requirement (one term, often GENE 500b Principles of Human Genetics)
• Thesis Committee Meeting (first meeting must occur before December 15)
• Thesis Research Proposal (prepared for 1st thesis committee meeting)
• Research-in-Progress (RIP) Presentation (middle of spring term)
• Thesis Prospectus (end of spring term)
• Admission to Candidacy

Years 4 & 5

• Petition for MPhil in Fall Semester of 4th year
• Teaching Requirement is normally fulfilled before the 5th Year
• Thesis Research
• Thesis Committee meeting
• Research-in-Progress (RIP) presentation
• Annual Dissertation Progress Report

Year 6

• Complete Thesis Research
• Final Thesis Committee Meeting to obtain approval of advisor and committee members to write thesis
• Petition for PhD Degree and submit final thesis to the Graduate School
• Present Thesis Seminar
• Review Readersí Reports and make any corrections
• Present hard-bound copy of thesis to the Genetics Department