E.    Dissertation:

1.    After successfully completing the oral examination on the written Special Comprehensive Exams, the student will form a dissertation committee composed of a Chair (ordinarily from the Core Doctoral Faculty and the Area Faculty), one professor from UCB (or equivalent institution), and a third and/or fourth professor (ordinarily from the Core Doctoral Faculty of the GTU and from a GTU member school other than that of the Chair). Exceptions can be made to this protocol. The student is urged to compose the committee best qualified to aid in the pursuit of the dissertation project.

2.    The student will formulate with the committee’s assistance and approval a dissertation proposal, and submit it for approval to the Area faculty and then to the Doctoral Council according to the protocols and regulations of the GTU.

3.    The completed dissertation is defended orally during a three-hour examination conducted by the dissertation committee.


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