Doctor's degree Sociology - Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Doctor's degree Sociology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a Campus Ph.D Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. Doctorate requirements Advisement The responsibility for initial advisement rests with the Director of Graduate Studies. As soon as possible, the Director of Graduate Studies, in consultation with the student, will request an appropriate member of the department's graduate faculty to serve as the student's academic adviser. This adviser will help prepare a general plan of study (see Appendix B) and will be responsible for making sure that her/his student is enrolled in the correct hours each semester and fulfilling the tool, substantive seminar, and readings requirements. It is the student's responsibility to develop, in consultation with his/her adviser, a plan of study leading to timely completion of the comprehensive examinations and a dissertation. This plan of study will be filed in the student's permanent file. Change of advisor should be filed with the Director of Graduate Studies. Credit hours per semester The department requires full-time students with full assistantships (i.e., ? time assistantships) to enroll in 9 credit hours per semester. Students with graduate fellowships, Veteran's benefits, or SIUC scholarships also must take at least 9 credit hours as required by the Graduate School. Once doctoral students have completed their required courses (for research tool and seminars) and two examinations, the minimum credit hours is 8. Comprehensive Examinations Ph.D. students must pass two written comprehensive exams: the Doctoral Comprehensive Exam which is taken during the second weekend in January of the second year (prior to the start of 4th semester), and the Substantive Comprehensive Exam on the student's research field which should be finished within one year following (i.e., by the beginning of the spring semester in the student's third year or 6th semester). Students should inform the Graduate Director of their substantive exam area and readiness to take the examination within three months after completion of the Doctoral Comprehensive Exam. Accelerated option: With adviser's approval, Ph.D students with a SIUC MA may notify the Director of Graduate Studies in writing that they wish to take the Doctoral Comprehensive Exam in their first year in the Ph.D. program (on the second weekend in January). With this option, the Substantive Comprehensive Exam still must be completed within a year, by the start of spring semester (4th semester) of their second year. See sections below for more details on the examinations. View more details on Southern Illinois University Carbondale . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.