THESIS 299 PROCESS CHECKLIST
- File a Petition of Advancement to Candidacy form with
the Graduate Division.
- Select a thesis topic and write a proposal, if demanded
by your program. Select a chairperson and two committee
members for your thesis committee (the chair and one other
committee member must be graduate faculty from your degree
program).
- Determine (check with your chair) whether or not
you need to file a Human or Animal Subjects clearance for
your thesis, and start the process as soon as possible.
- Complete the top half of the Thesis (299) Committee Assignment
sheet form, including your topic and committee members;
get the required signatures; and file this form with the
Graduate Division. Complete this form before you sign
up for thesis units in your department.
- Enroll in your department for your thesis units (Thesis
299). (For summer enrollment, you will need to pick up your
enrollment form from the Division of Graduate Studies office.)
- Establish a timeline and meeting schedule with your chair
and your committee. Include goals for each stage of thesis
development and establish member responsibilities.
- Purchase and/or download from the Thesis Office Web site the university's
Guidelines for Thesis Preparation and obtain a copy of the
style manual/journal style sheet used in your program.
Check with your thesis chair if you are not sure of the
correct choice of manual/journal style sheet.
- Organize your work, do your research, and write your
study, staying in close touch with your committee. Get the
Thesis Template from the Thesis Office Web site, if using MS Word.
- Maintain university enrollment throughout each semester
of your thesis work, either through regular university enrollment
(required of all international students) or (for those domestic
students who have completed all their coursework) through
0 units GS Continuation. Students intending to graduate
in summer must register for the summer term.
- At the beginning of the semester (first two weeks) or
summer term (three weeks) when you intend to graduate, apply
for graduation. Be sure you are also registered (see #9
above).
- Note the posted deadline for Final Draft submission to
the Graduate Division. When you have finished your thesis
and have obtained approval of all members of your thesis
committee, collect your committee signatures on
the Final Draft approval page, and submit your
signed Final Draft to the Graduate Division for review.
- When you receive a call from the Thesis Consultant, pick
up the thesis, and make the recommended corrections. Laser
print this corrected Publication Copy of your thesis, collect
your committee signatures on the Publication Copy approval
page, and resubmit this copy, along with the Final
Draft, to the Graduate Division for its final review and
approval for binding. The Thesis Consultant will obtain
the Dean’s signature for you.
- When given the final Thesis Office approval, take your
publication copy to the Kennel Bookstore Print and Copy
Center for copying onto acid-free 20-pound bond paper, pay
the other processing and binding fees at the university cashier, and bring the
payment form to the Graduate Division for final thesis
clearance.
- Check with your department to assure that they have submitted your Master’s Degree Clearance form (which includes your thesis grade) to the Graduate Division by the posted clearance deadline.