Contents

• Introduction
• Overview of the Program
• The Immigration Course
• Advisors
• Directed Research
• Course Requirements
  • Five Area Star Courses
  • Thirty-Six Elective Units
  • Placing Out
  
  
• Teaching Requirement
• Written and Oral Communication Skills
  • Writing Skill
  • Speaking Skill
  
  
• The Thesis Process
  • Thesis Proposal
  • Thesis Committee
  • Thesis
  • Thesis Defense
  • Graduation Certification
  
  
• The Emigration Course
• Community Spirit
• Graduate Teaching Fellow Program
• Masters Degrees
• Student Support
  • Academic Year Support
  • Summer Support
  • Travel Support
  • Consulting and Outside Employment
  
  
• Leave of Absence
• Evaluation of Students' Progress
  • Components and Indicators
  • Recommendations
  • Grades
  
  
• Problems?
  • Advisor, Sharon, and Frank
  • The Doctoral Review Committee
  • The Ombudsperson
  
  
• University Policies
• Prerequisites to the Area Star Courses
• Estimates of the Time Allocated to Each Component of the Ph.D. Program
• Ph.D. Specializations
  • Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization
  • Neural Basis of Cognition Training Program
  • Pure and Applied Logic
  
  
• Self-Defined Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program