Schedule

General overview of schedule for graduate students

Detailed descriptions are provided by, and vary, with each program.

First semester

Idea development
Discuss potential committee members. See committee page for specific requirements.
Begin adding committee members

Second semester

Develop study plan. See study plan page and template for specific requirements.
Complete core committee members
First committee meeting - mid to end of semester
- discuss overall interests
- discuss summer research plans and objectives
- discuss and sign off on study plan

Summer 1 - ranges from exploratory research to publishable research depending on student

Third semester

Second committee meeting - start of Fall semester
- Discus summer advances
- Discuss in more detail PhD research interests
Over semester write up a PhD research proposal per guidelines on 'students' page
Share research proposal with committee and have 1-2 rounds of revisions (by late mid semester)
Third committee meeting - late-mid Fall semester
- Proposal defense - See 'students' page for detailed information.
  - 20 minute presentation of proposed research
  - Discussion of research proposal
Share revised final proposal with committee - Late-end of Fall semester

Fourth semester

Summer 2 - PhD research suitable for inclusion as a chapter

Fifth to sixth semester (if on a 4 year plan)

Field data collection, analysis and writing
Often conducting extensive field work or based entirely at field sites depending

Seventh semester (if on a 4 year plan)

Final exam / Thesis defense - late-mid Fall semester. See 'students' page for detailed information.

Eighth semester (if on a 4 year plan)

First semester

Idea development
Discuss potential committee members. See committee page for specific requirements.
Begin adding committee members

Second semester

Develop study plan. See study plan page and template for specific requirements.
Complete core committee members
First committee meeting - start of semester
discuss overall interests
discuss and sign off on study plan
Second committee meeting - mid to end of semester
- discuss summer research plans and objectives
- Over semester write up a MS research proposal per guidelines on 'students' pagE
- Share research proposal with committee and have 1 round of revisions (by late mid semester)

Summer - MS research suitable for inclusion as a chapter (s). Manuscript format.

Third semester

Fourth semester

First semester

Idea development for final exam.
- Typical projects for final exams include activities such as: internships, data collection opportunities, use of existing data for new questions, and/or independent work.
Discuss potential second grader. See committee page for specific requirements. We need to identify a 2nd ‘grader’ well in advance who would review and participate and then sign off on the final exam form. Student suggestions for a 2nd grader name are normally provided by the student, based on coursework or involvement in their internships or experience. Typically, a faculty at UF, but could be a PhD level or higher from elsewhere if they are interested and we follow a process to make that feasible via UF.
Invite second grader. This might involve the student having a short meeting with the grader to discuss, or simply a nice formal email of request / invitation.
Minimum 1 meeting (typically Zoom) with advisor (Dr. Broadbent).

Second semester

Summer - Final exam research / activity.

Third semester

Data analysis.
Begin preparing the:
- 5-6 pg. overview document, which includes key components of a peer-reviewed manuscript, as shown in the writing template, that summarizes what you did, including the normal sections of title, purpose (question or hypotheses), method, results, discussion, and references.
- A 20-minute PPT slide presentation, with 10-minute question and answer following., which includes those same sections. Include nice visuals.
Update and reconfirm second grader participation.

Fourth semester