Comprehensive Requirement

Procedures for the AECD PhD students 
 

The following comprehensive requirements are in effect for students who began their program in 2009 or later.
 
The new policy states that there will be two members on the committee.

1. The committee will meet three times a year, in the 1st week in March, July and November to determine who will be the second reader of the comprehensive submissions. The first reader will be the supervisor and will have already read the paper by the time the committee meets.

2. How will the comprehensive requirement be handled? The supervisor or the student submit the paper directly to the student liaison officer by the appropriate deadline (March 1st, July 1st, November 1st).

3. The committee determines who the second reader is. This faculty member (second reader) will be required to complete the reading by the last week of March, July, or November, which ever is appropriate.

4. The readers will provide written feedback to the student by the first week of April, August or December, whic ever is appropriate.

5. If the student has passed successfully the comprehensive approval form is submitted to the student liaison officer by the first week of April, August or December, whichever is appropriate.

6. If the student is required to complete revisions, those should be completed by mid-May, or Mid-Sept., or Mid-January, or postponed to the next submission date.

7. In all cases the requirement should be fulfilled by the end of the third year, or an extension to the time limits will be necessary.