General overview of scheduled activities for graduate students.
Detailed descriptions are provided by, and vary, with each program.
Detailed descriptions are provided by, and vary, with each program.
Default timeline for a SFRC PhD student
First semester
Second semester
Summer 1 - ranges from exploratory research to publishable research depending on student
Third semester
Fourth semester
Summer 2 - PhD research suitable for inclusion as a chapter
Fifth to sixth semester (if on a 4 year plan)
Seventh semester (if on a 4 year plan)
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 - 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
- Proposal defense - See 'students' page for detailed information.
- Share revised final proposal with committee - Late-end of Fall semester
Fourth semester
- Assign themes and format for each committee member
- Written qualifying exams - mid Spring semester
- Oral qualifying exam - Late Spring 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)
- Complete revised version of PhD
- Submit to UF graduate school
- Graduation (typically May)
Default timeline for a SFRC MS student
First semester
Second semester
Summer - MS research suitable for inclusion as a chapter (s). Manuscript format.
Third semester
Fourth semester
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
- Data analysis and write up
- Thesis defense - late semester
Fourth semester
- Complete revised version of MS
- Submit to UF graduate school
- Graduation (typically May)
