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To graduate you must follow through on several procedures and meet several deadlines:
1. Relatively early in the semester in which you intend to graduate, you must file an Intent to Graduate Card with the Graduate School. This can be done electronically or on paper, and all of the forms you need in order to graduate (and instructions for filling them out) can be found at the graduation page of the Graduate School Forms site.
2. Along with the Intent to Graduate Card, you also must file a Candidacy form with the Graduate Coordinator for English, who will check for accuracy, have the Chair sign it, and then forward it to the Graduate School for you. This form is available online. Once you have filled out this form with the coursework relevant to your degree, you will need the signature of your advisor; then you must submit it to the Graduate English Office in PT 456.
3. In the semester you intend to graduate, if you are a Masters student and have finished your course work or will finish in that semester, you must either sign up for and pass a Comprehensive Exam in your area or successfully complete your Thesis and subsequent Thesis Defense. Early in the semester, a faculty member in charge of the Comprehensive Exam Committee will schedule and publicize the date of the exam to all students graduating that semester.
4. To graduate you must file a Comprehensive Exam form with the Graduate School if you take the exam, and a Thesis Defense form if you write a Thesis. NOTE: If you are writing a Thesis you must submit a Thesis Defense form and ALSO submit a Comprehensive Exam form (based on the oral defense of your Thesis).
5. Deadlines: Please note that there are specific deadlines each semester for the submission of exam results, a finished thesis, candidacy form, intent to graduate card, and so forth. If you miss these deadlines you will most likely be unable to graduate until the following semester. These deadlines are published each semester on the Graduate School website.
If you have general questions about graduation or your specific problem with graduation you can contact: Graduation Analyst, Michelle Stout at (901) 678-3560; FAX (901) 678-3003, Administration 317.
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