The graduate student should consult with potential advisor(s) regarding the feasibility and merit of topics of interest. The student recommends someone to be his/her faculty research director with that person’s consent; this choice must be approved by the Program Director.
The graduate student, the research director, and the Program Director determine the time and place of the Defense of the Thesis/Field Experience.
Within 60 days of the term in which the student completes his/her thesis/field work, the student will submit the written document(s) and stand for a public oral defense of the thesis or field report.
The examiners shall include three full-time faculty from the Department of Philosophy & Theology, including the faculty director of the thesis or field work.
A majority vote of the examiners suffices for the student to pass the defense.
The department Chair shall officially report the results in writing to the student, the Registrar, and the faculty research director. The Registrar shall note the event on the student transcript. The faculty research director will take the result as partially fulfilling the requirements of THEO 595.
