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Dissertation Requirements
Procedure for the PhD Dissertation
Qualification for the Writing of the Doctoral Dissertation
To qualify for the writing of a doctoral dissertation, a student enrolled in the Center’s program must complete all course work, language requirements, and the PhD Comprehensive Exam. In addition, the student must have settled upon a director of the dissertation who has agreed to this role. Normally the director is to be a member of the Center faculty. In extraordinary cases, with the approval of the Director of the Center for Thomistic Studies, a student may have an external director, or co-directors at least one of whom is a Center faculty member. When a student has completed all the above qualifications and settled upon a dissertation director, that director will so inform the Center Director who will then confirm the choice and formally notify the student in writing that he or she is a “candidate for the writing of a doctoral dissertation.”
The Dissertation Proposal
As a candidate for the writing of a doctoral dissertation, in consultation with the dissertation director, the student prepares a preliminary title and written proposal for research on the topic of the dissertation. This proposal is to include a discussion of relevant literature on the topic, both primary and secondary; an explanation of the approach to that topic proposed by the student; an outline of how the topic will be developed in the main chapters of the dissertation; and pre-liminary bibliography. This proposal will be in the range of 10-20 pages. When the dissertation proposal has been completed to the satisfaction of the dissertation director, the student will provide the dissertation director with three copies of the proposal, and the director will give two of these copies to the Center Director together with the request that a dissertation board be appointed.
The Dissertation Board
In consultation with the student and the dissertation director, the Director of the Center will appoint two members of the Center faculty to serve, under the chairmanship of the dissertation director, as a dissertation board. Upon appointment to the dissertation board, each member appointed will receive from the Center Director a copy of the dissertation proposal. Normally, this board will review the dissertation proposal and later act as readers of the completed dissertation. |
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