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Students must submit a defense public notice prior to their defense

• Required  MS Public Notice  must be submitted 1 week prior to defense
• Required  PhD Public Notice  must be submitted 2 weeks prior to defense
• Required on line announcement for PhD students to post a 2 week public notice on the graduate school website.  Log in to “Announce Your Defense” . This is optional for MS students.

Submission Date ‐ It is your responsibility to follow the  graduation deadlines  for submitting graduation requirements and materials. Failure to meet published deadlines will result in cancellation of your graduation.

Defense Date - It is recommended that your defense date be 2 weeks or more prior to the Electronic Submission of Thesis/Dissertation Due Date graduation deadlines. This will give you 2 weeks to make any necessary changes, upload to SafeAssign and ETD. Please notify your advisor of the ETD submission date and deadlines when scheduling your defense date.

Two forms are required to be signed by your advisor and committee on the day of your defense:

• Defense Form  
• Committee Approval Form
• Submit your signed  CEAS Defense Form ,  Program of Study  and  Plagiarism Pledge  to the GSO, 665 Baldwin Hall
• 1st Submit your thesis/dissertation to  SafeAssign  in Blackboard.  You will find a class in your blackboard upload your thesis/dissertation and instructions on what to do after you upload.   Wait for approval from the GSO.  Do not submit to ETD until you have your  SafeAssign  approval.
• 2nd Upload to ETD ONLY after you have received your SafeAssign approval.  You advisor must approve your ETD submission by the ETD submission date.  This is a firm deadline, no exceptions.  The deadline can be found on the Graduation Checklist.
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Ph.D. Information Technology

The Information Technology doctoral program prepares students with skills to advance applied research in evidence-based, human-centered and secure IT practice. In addition, the program prepares doctoral students whose research will advance knowledge in evidence-based practices needed to educate future IT professionals at the K12, undergraduate, and graduate levels.

Curriculum Overview

The curriculum requires a total of 90 credit hours post Baccalaureate that are distributed among four areas:

1. Core area (33 semester credit hours) that includes:

• 15 hours of Information Technology Foundations
• 12 hours in an Area of Specialization
• 6 hours of research preparation

2. Methodology (12 semester credit hours)

3. Electives (15 semester credit hours) distributed among analytical, quantificational, computational, social, and experiential themes.

4. Dissertation (30 semester credit hours)

Doctoral Program

Our Ph.D. in Information Technology is offered as an onsite degree:

• Ph.D. in Information Technology

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OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) contains over 58,000 theses and dissertations from students at 31 of Ohio’s world-renowned academic institutions. In 2012, Google thanked OhioLINK for making ETD open-access content easier to find by Google Scholar. Theses and dissertations from Ohio’s academic institutions were downloaded more than six million times from researchers around the globe in 2015.

Consider reading this blog post to learn more about the upload process for theses and dissertations. And also check out our overview flyer  about the ETD Center.

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PhD Program in English Literature

Program requirements.

Both the MA and PhD program in English Literature take the following courses:

• Professionalization Seminar (1 credit, may be waived for PhD    students entering with knowledge of the profession)
• Methods of Criticism and Critical Debates: Introduction to Theory    Course (3 credits)
• Cultural Difference and Alterity: Literature and/or Theory Course    (3 credits)
• English Composition Practicum (2 credits)
• Teaching College Writing (3 credits)
• Further course work at the PhD level includes the following:
• Four courses supporting two fields of study (6 credits each, for a    total of 12 credits)
• Three Electives , chosen from courses at the 6000-8000 levels (9 credits)
• One Research seminar for exam preparation and the dissertation    proposa l , or another course supporting one of the two fields of study    (3 credits)
• At least one 8000-level course
• Students with sufficient background can, with approval from the Area Director, take an alternate theory course to the Introduction to Theory Course .

Upon completing course work, students move forward to the dissertation stage of the PhD program by passing a qualifying written and oral examination.  Faculty members administer exams designed in consultation with a committee approved by the Director of Graduate Study.  The exam structure is linked to course work, with the goal of focusing on preparation for the dissertation.

• Students select two fields of study.  Fields of study might include broad literary or theoretical movements, topics based on historical chronology, national boundaries, and genre study, including narratology and poetic theory, and pedagogy; they might focus on concepts emerging from the study of race and ethnicity, class, gender and/or sexuality, or from popular culture, film, and media studies.   
• The first field of study includes a substantial theoretical component relevant to the proposed dissertation topic.  Along with coverage of primary and secondary texts in the area studied, it addresses the topic, methodology, and theoretical position of the dissertation.
• The second field of study may be single area further supporting work on the dissertation, or it may be designed to enhance the candidate’s success in the job market.

Students construct and complete reading lists for the two fields of study in consultation with members of their exam committees.

LCS Exam Committee Form

Overview of the PhD in Literary and Culture Studies

1 Students teaching or TAing for the department will sign up for  ENGL 9095  while students serving as research or administrative assistants will sign up for  ENGL 9096 ; unfunded students sign up for neither.

Unfunded students are required to enroll in 10 credit hours to be considered full time, and 5 credit hours to be considered half-time for student loan deferral purposes. 

Full time, funded students must register for  at least 12 credit hours  and  no more than 18 credit hours  per semester. ENGL 9095 and ENGL 9096 are not required courses; they are filler courses that give funded students 3 credit hours in order to meet the 12 credit hour requirement. Funded students can opt out of enrolling in ENGL 9095/6 as long as they are enrolled in 12+ credit hours each semester.  Do not sign up for ENGL 9095/6 if doing so puts you over 18 credit hours  a semester.

2 If you have external (non-English Dept.) GAship funding, sign up for 12 credit hours of ENGL 9099 each semester. If you have fifth-year English Dept. funding and do not want UC student health insurance, sign up for 1 credit hour in the Fall only. If you have fifth-year English Dept. funding and require UC student health insurance, sign up for 1 credit hour each semester. If you have fifth-year English Dept. funding and want to defer student loans, sign up for 5 credit hours each semester.

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Thesis & Dissertation Databases

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses & @ Univesity of Cincinnati Access to a body of well over 11,000 University of Cincinnati dissertations and theses, this is the most direct link to the broadest collection of UC dissertations & theses. The time period covers from 1886 to the present. Nearly all of this collection is available in full text in PDF format.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) -- International PQDT indexes millions of theses and dissertations from around the world. Coverage is from 1637 to the present. Full text is available for most of the dissertations added since 1997. There is also significant retrospective full text coverage for titles prior to 1997.
• OhioLINK ETD Center Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK) is an online database of masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from graduate students in participating Ohio colleges and universities. The OhioLINK ETD database provides access by author, school, department and keywords. Most titles are available in full text.

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