Physics Graduate Handbook

Introduction

• Orientation
• Advising
• Guide to degree completion steps, and a briefer, step by step, description.
• Teaching
• Tuition and Related Issues
• Ethics and Professionalism in Research
• School Activities
• Career Development

Academic Program

• Entering students and the first year
• The second year
• Beyond the second year

M.Sc. Degree Requirements

Ph.D. Degree Requirements

Minor Requirements

Physics Graduate Policies

• Requirements for satisfactory progress in the graduate program
• Financial Support Policy
• Tuition
• Summer Registration Policy
• Graduate Written Examination Policy
• Preliminary Oral Examination
• Assignment of M.S. and Ph.D. Committees. Dissertation defense
• Grading Policy
• Criteria for Registration Warnings and Holds
• Winter break travel policy

Teaching Assistant Duties and Expectations

• Duties of a physics teaching assistant
• Appointments and re-appointments
• Change in appointments
• Performance and evaluation
• Paid and unpaid leaves of absence
• Termination
• Grievances and Appeals
• Outside employment

Support staff information

Links to other University resources and forms