POLICIES & FORMS
This page contains information for students pursuing research degrees in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Students entering their program as of Fall 2017 are able to check their progress via myProgress. The tables below show the correspondence between the meetings or milestones that occur at various stages of study and the corresponding myProgress milestones.
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Program Overview 00_SCSD_PhD_Guideline
| Overall Program Timeline | Program Requirments *My Progress Milestones |
Policy | Form | Complete By PhD Year / Term Number | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
PhD 1 Entrant |
PhD 2 Entrant | ||||
|
PhD Letter of Understanding |
*PhD Letter of Understanding |
00_SCSD_PhD_Guideline | 10_Letter of Understanding | PhD 1/ T1 | PhD 2/ T1 |
| PhD Supervisory Committee Selection | PhD Supervisory Committee | 00_SCSD_PhD_Guideline | 11_Supervisory Committee Selection and Agreement | PhD 1/ T1 | PhD 2/ T1 |
| PhD Coursework | 01_PhD_Course Work | - | PhD 3/ T8 | PhD 3/ T5 | |
| PhD 1 Qualifying Year | *PhD 1 Progress Tracking | 02_PhD_Annual Progress Meeting | 12_PhD progress tracking form | PhD 1/ T1 | - |
| PhD 1 Qualifying Year Research Project | 03_PhD1_Qualifying Yr Research Project | - | PhD 1/ T2 | - | |
| PhD 2 Comprehensive Year | *PhD 2 Progress Tracking | 02_PhD_Annual Progress Meeting | 12_PhD progress tracking form | PhD 2/ T4 | PhD 2/ T1 |
| *PhD Comprehensive Exam | 04_PhD2_Comprehensive Exam |
13_Comprehensive Exam Topic Selection and Examiner Nomination |
PhD 3/ T7 | PhD 3/ T4 | |
| PhD 3 Thesis Proposal Year | *PhD 3 Progress Tracking | 02_PhD_Annual Progress Meeting | 12_PhD progress tracking form | PhD 3/ T7 | PhD 3/ T4 |
| *PhD Thesis Proposal | 05_PhD3_Thesis Proposal | 15_Thesis Proposal Approval Form | PhD 3/ T9 | PhD 3/ T6 | |
| PhD 4+ Thesis Year | *PhD 4 Progress Tracking | 02_PhD_Annual Progress Meeting | 12_PhD progress tracking form | PhD 4/ T10 | PhD 4/ T7 |
| *PhD 5 Progress Tracking | PhD 5/ T13 | PhD 5/ T10 | |||
| *PhD 6 Progress Tracking | PhD 6/ T16 | PhD 6/ T13 | |||
| Thesis Submission and Defence | Thesis Submission | 06_Thesis Submission | - | - | - |
| Oral Defence | https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis/thesis-guidelines/oral-defence | - | - | - | |
| *PhD Thesis (Final) | https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis/final-thesis-submission | - | PhD 6/ T19 | PhD 6/ T16 | |
