Meet with your supervisor regularly and complete progress reports each year.
- See course and program requirements for your McGill degree.
- Monitor your progress towards your degree.
Receive reminders of upcoming or missed academic milestones in thesis graduate programs.
Fall & Winter
Students in PhD 1 have been accepted into the program without a Master's Degree, or with a Master's Degree in an unrelated field, and complete a series of additional preparatory courses during this year.
Fall
- Study plan: Complete and approve plan for degree, including timing of courses and academic milestones (e.g., comprehensive examination, progress tracking).
- 2 seminars
- Colloquium attendance
Winter
- 2 seminars
- Colloquium attendance
- Progress report
Fall
- Draft comprehensive exam topics and reading list
- Colloquium attendance
Winter
- Colloquium attendance
- Comprehensive examination
- Progress report
Fall
- MUSR 690 Special Field Research
Winter
- Thesis research
- Thesis proposal
- Progress report
Fall
- Thesis research
Winter
- Thesis research
- Colloquium presentation (must be completed prior to dissertation submission)
- Progress report
Fall
- Thesis research
- Final thesis submission
- December submission for Spring graduation
Winter
By end of PhD 6
- April thesis submission for Fall graduation
Progress Reports and Degree Audit Forms
Graduate Progress Report Guidelines, Graduate Student Progress Tracking Report and Audit Forms can be found on the grad and postdocwebsite
