The first two parts will be filled in from the information that you gave to the Graduate Studies Chair for these entries in the header part of your milestones page. The other parts are directly editable by you in your Academic Planner.
1. Advisor(s) and other advisory committee members
This field will name your primary advisor (or co-advisors) -- i.e. the person
(or people) you specified at the AdvisingFest, who should now be listed as
your advisor(s) of record on your advising report. (You can see your advising
report at http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/Indexes/current.html.) If you listed
other faculty as a committee to give you advice, they will be listed here, too.
2. Area(s) of specialization
This will be the one-word or short-phrase descriptor of (each of) your primary
area(s) of specialization - e.g., "syntax", "historical linguistics and
sociophonetics", "computational linguistics and sentence processing".
3. Coursework
Use the table provided to list the courses that you have taken or plan to
take in your first years on the program. At this stage, the courses for
year 3 will necessarily be only a preliminary list, but the schedule
should include the complete list of entry-level courses that you have
designated as relevant to preparing yourself to engage in primary research
in your area(s) of specialization. Identify these in the table somehow
(e.g., by putting an asterisk or a subscript "e" following the course number).
Except in exceptional circumstances, these should be courses that you can
complete by the end of your second year, and any exceptional circumstances
should be explained in a note below the table.
Also, if the table of courses does not include all
core courses,
make a note following the table
explaining why. For example, did you "test out" of a core course by submitting
the syllabus for a course taken elsewhere, which the faculty responsible for
teaching that core course deemed to be equivalent to the OSU course? Or did
your advisory committee approve your postponing one of the core courses in
order to take a seminar relevant to your specialization that would not be
offered again in time?
4. First Qualifying Paper
Give a short, preliminary description of the research that you plan to report
on in your First Qualifying Paper. Also describe any program-specific requirements
that you and your committee have agreed to regarding its content. For example,
should it demonstrate a facility in experimental design? Should it incorporate
a large amount of primary data that you elicited from a language consultant or
extracted from an online corpus?
1. & 2.
Update your plan by making having the Graduate Studies Chair noting
any changes you've made in these two fields since your Stage 1 plan.
3. Coursework
Use the table provided to update the list of courses that you have taken or
plan to take in your first three years on the program. Append notes explaining
any changes in the list of entry-level courses since your Stage 1 Plan, or any
exceptional circumstances involving them or the four core courses. At this
stage, the schedule also should include the complete list of advanced courses
that you have designated as relevant to your program of study. Differentiate
each of these from the entry-level courses in the table (e.g., by putting two
asterisks or a subscript "a" following the course number).
4. First Qualifying Paper
Specify the title and list the three people who will be the reading
committee for the First Qualifying Paper.
5. Second Qualifying Paper
Give a short, preliminary description of the research that you think you might
develop to report on in your Second Qualifying Paper. Also describe any program-specific
requirements that you and your committee have agreed to regarding its content,
and the understanding that you and the two reading committees have made
regarding the breadth requirement.
6. Language requirement
Describe how the language requirement will be fulfilled (or how and when it
was fulfilled).
1. & 2.
Update your plan by making having the Graduate Studies Chair noting
that at this stage your advisor(s) of record officially will become the
chair(s) of your Advisory Committee, as described in section II.6.4 of the
Graduate School Handbook (the section on the "Candidacy Examation"), and
that you must have an official "Advisory Committee" of at least four people
who will constitute your Candidacy Examination Committee. See section 9
of the department Program Handbook for local rules about who can be on your
Advisory Committee.
3. Coursework
Use the following table to update the list of courses that you have taken.
Append notes explaining any changes in the list of entry-level or advanced
courses since your Stage 2 Plan, or any exceptional circumstances involving
them or the core courses.
5. Second Qualifying Paper
Update this section by specify the title and listing the 3 people who were
the reading committee.
6. Language requirement
Update this section to specify how and when the language requirement was
fulfilled.
7. Dissertation topic and Candidacy Examination
Describe the projected general topic of your dissertation. Describe the
specific format of the written part of your Candidacy Examination other
than the draft of the dissertation proposal (e.g., "two review articles,
one in the primary area and the other in the secondary area"), and list
any program-specific requirements regarding the timing. For example, your
Advisory Committee might require you to submit a rough first draft of your
dissertation proposal to them during the quarter before the Exam is taken,
so that this draft can be guide them in choosing the questions that you
will address in the rest of the written part. See the department Program
Handbook for rules regarding the written portion of every Candidacy Exam
in the doctoral program in Linguistics. See section VII.4 of the
Graduate
School Handbook for rules that are general to all doctoral programs at
Ohio State University.