INFORMATION FOR CURRENT STUDENTS

Your student handbook contains the regulations concerning your incoming year and also the forms necessary for the various stages throughout your graduate career. If you have any questions, consult your major professor or the graduate director, Gordon Baylis, gordon@sc.edu.

The steps for obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Experimental Psychology include:

• qualifying for Ph.D. candidacy (by the end of your second year)
• passing your written comprehensive examination
• passing your Ph.D. oral comprehensive examination
• obtaining approval of a Ph.D. dissertation prospectus
• completing your dissertation

 
You will also be completing your "course work" which includes the core courses, elective courses, and complementary course and lab work. Each of these steps will require the Experimental Program Forms to be filled out and filed in your student file by the Graduate Admissions Program Coordinator, Marti Brown. Many of the forms will require approval from the graduate director and/or your advising committee. The Graduate School should be notified of completion of each the steps, with the exception of the prospectus approval. Marti (martibrown@sc.edu, in Barnwell 248) can help you with the notification process.

You also can obtain a Master's degree concomitantly with your Ph.D. degree, if you so desire. This would entail elaborating your qualifying project into a full Master's thesis and also completing the Master's Oral Examination. The course work is a subset of the Ph.D. degree course work. Details of the Master's degrees requirements are in your handbook.