To change the membership of the Committee, the student should ask the Department Chair or designate to complete and submit another Dissertation Committee Form indicating the revisions. The prospectus should lay out what you are doing, how you will approach your question or problem, and why the topic is significant. The prospectus must be approved by the student's committee and the chair of the committee should submit the Prospectus Defense form to the program coordinator. Student are required to present the prospectus in the department's proseminar and may do so either before or after final approval by their committee. All members of the Candidate's Dissertation Committee are responsible for reading the dissertation and submitting their written evaluations of it to the Graduate School's Office of Academic Records and Dissertations at least two working days prior to the defense.
Details are available in the Dissertation Handbook .
At least four members of the Committee are required to be present at the oral defense and to certify that the Candidate has passed the oral examination and produced an acceptable dissertation. Complete information is available in the Dissertation Handbook. The best source for detailed information on the technicalities of writing, submitting, and defending the dissertation is the newly-revised Dissertation Handbook , available to all candidates, free of charge, from the Office of Academic Records and Dissertations . The Dissertation Handbook is an important resource for doctoral candidates and contains a wealth of detailed information designed to help smooth their way through the dissertation process. It is formatted as a doctoral dissertation.