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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Webpage. This Webpage site contains items of interest to iSchool Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin.
Announcements Dr. Harmon provides the following information: Colleagues: As promised in our GSC meeting today, I am forwarding the web site address in which I and 11 other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. The site also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for students and advisers. The address is http://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/disslist.html Glynn. 2004 10 05. Dr. Davis has loaned a copy of the three-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004) to the lab for our use. It not only provides excellent summaries of lots of issues and topics related to research methodology, but it provides reference sources under each topic to allow further exploration. Thank you, Dr. Davis. 2004 09 15.
Current Week Events of General Interest to Students Monday, Oct 18,12:15-1 PM, SZB 556, SAA Meeting. The regular Monday meeting is scheduled to discuss Archives week. Come and participate in planning this interesting annual event For more information, please visit the SAA Student Chapter Website or contact Mary Anne Mardock, SAA Chapter President. Monday, Oct 18, 4-6 PM, SZB 464, Career's Workshop, Ron Pollock, Preparing for Interviews and Writing Thank You Letters. This workshop will focus on helping you prepare for job interviews and to write thank you letters after job interviews.It includes a substantial number of in-class exercises designed to help students understand how to describe their experiences in terms that have value to employers. What to Bring: Paper & pen for notes. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, by email or phone, 471-2623. Tuesday, Oct 19, 11:30-1 PM, Austin State Hospital, Taking Advantage of UT Reseurces. Presenters Lee Ann Lacy: UT School of Information Capstone Coordinator, Mary Ann Mardock, UT SAA President, and Tad Howington, CRM , CA , FAI, will focus on the opportunities provided by University of Texas thru the UT Capstone Experience and the UT Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivist. The University of Texas offers a variety of possibilities for local companies to tap into the knowledge and willingness of UT students. All University of Texas School of Information Master's candidates now complete a "capping" experience to their academic studies. Students may choose the Professional Experience and Project Capstone option by completing an academically rigorous, professional-level project while receiving in return valuable mentoring in a real-world setting. The project will ordinarily result in a deliverable, e.g., a paper detailing the project, a web site, a database, a dataset, a manual, a community service program. The presenters will discuss how organizations can tap into this resource, the value gained for both the student and the organization, the role of an Archives and how Archives and Records Management work together. In addition, Mary Ann will share information on the upcoming events for Archives Week 2004, which will be held October 31 - November 6. Archives Week coincides with Election Week this year. This year's theme for Archives Week will be "Government and Secrecy". The meeting will be held at the Austin State Hospital, Conference Rooms adjoining the Free to ARMA members, first time guests and students. Non-members - $5.00. For more information, please visit the SAA Student Chapter Website or the ARMA Austin Website or contact Mary Anne Mardock, SAA Chapter President or Scott Willrich, ARMA Chapter President. Tuesday, Oct 19, 3:30-5 PM, North Carolina State, Fellows Program. Representatives of the North Carolina State University Fellows Program will present an information session on the program. The program will be followed by interviews Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. If you are interested in being interviewed while the NCSU team is here, you will need to complete your resume/cover letter and send it by e-mail. Ron Pollock is coordinating the deadline and e-mail address and will have that information available shortly. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, by email or phone, 471-2623. Wednesday, Oct 20, 4:30-5:30, SZB 556, Gerianne Schaad, SAA Mentoring Programs. Gerianne Schaad will be talking about the mentoring program and the benefits joining the national organization. She is the head of the archives at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and runs the mentoring program for the Society of American Archivists. She is also very active in the Society of Southwest Archivists, the regional archival organization, and in fact was part of the local hosting committee for their last conference. For those of you who are interested in archives, but are not wholly committed to it, this is a good opportunity to get another view of the profession. All are invited. Hope to see you there! For more information, please visit the SAA Student Chapter Website or contact Mary Anne Mardock, Chapter President. Thursday, Oct 21, 5-5:30 PM, LCRA, Austin City Council, Archives Week Proclamation. The Austin has voted to designate October 31 to November 6, Archives Week and will be releasing the proclamation. This is a very exciting development in our plans for Archives Week, and a show of support from those in the School of Information would be very much appreciated. Come and participate in this exceptional event. The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA ) is located at 3700 Lake Austin Boulevard. For more information, please visit the SAA Student Chapter Website or contact Mary Anne Mardock, Chapter President. Thursday, Oct 21, 5-6:30 PM, JES A115 (CEC Library), Take Your Degree and Run With It. A career exploration workshop that is cosponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) and Career Exploration Center (CEC). Did you sprint down the career path toward academia, and then wonder whether it's the right direction for you? In this 90-minute workshop you will assess where you are, where you are going, and learn how to explore other career paths outside academia. Seating is limited to 30 people. To reserve a seat, go to the OGS Workshop Website. For more information please visit the Workshop Website or contact Lynne Levinson, CEC, via email or phone, 471-1217. Thursday, Oct 21, 6:30-9 PM, ACE AVAYA Auditorium, Kermit Ross, POTS to PIPES -- Access Networks for the Internet Age. This presentation will look at where the telcos are now and the directions they will likely take to transform their access networks . . . from wires, circuits and POTS lines to broadband PIPES to deliver the voice, data and video packets of the Internet Age. The telcos' access networks are, mostly, copper wires, and the physical structures supporting and containing them, that connect the subscribers' telephones to CO switches. Today's access networks are designed for the efficient and reliable delivery of POTS. Telcos change their switching equipment about every 25 years. Telephones have changed, too. Access equipment in the outside plant is much slower to change. Demand for new telephone lines soared in the 1980's and 1990's, and telcos turned to electronic solutions to extend the capabilities of their access networks. The first job was to extend copper's range and transmission quality. Next came "pair-gain" systems, using electronics to "derive" additional lines on single copper pairs. Then digital loop carriers (DLCs) were launched to derive many lines on a just a few digital T1 circuits. As optical fiber was introduced into the feeder plant, DLCs began appearing in high-density areas, relatively close to COs. Integrating provisioning, management and testing functions and a SONET fiber terminal in a single box resulted in the "Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier" (NGDLC), which entered the market in the early 1990s. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the simultaneous rise of the Internet have profoundly changed the US telecommunications industry. We've gone from the "POTS Era" of certain, perpetual access line growth to the "Internet Age", featuring great uncertainty and fierce competition. At first, the Internet was a contributor to access line growth. It's become a cause of access line losses, as many customers discard dial-up Internet access in favor of DSLs or cable modems. The telcos are facing the challenges of the Internet Age in several ways. First, they have reduced capital expenditures (capex) to half that of 2000. Until now, access line growth has been the principle driver of capex. Second, they are creating and launching new Internet Age services. Broadband services, such as high-speed Internet access and Video, are crucial. Third, telcos are adopting packet technology, transforming entire local networks, switching and Outside Plant, from "circuit-to-packet" (C2P). C2P will drive a great wave of change, challenge and opportunity, including the replacement of POTS Era switches, DLCs, and NGDLCs by a new generation of packet-technology network elements. Today's access networks cannot be replaced; there's too much of it. So, telcos will be challenged to adapt them and to stretch their capabilities to meet the challenges of the Internet Age. Kermit L. Ross is founder and Principal Consultant of Millennium Marketing. Millennium Marketing provides consulting services in marketing strategy, planning and product positioning to telecommunications equipment companies. Mr. Ross was previously Vice President-Marketing of Taqua Systems. He also founded and was President of Teledata Communications Inc. Mr. Ross has over 39 years experience in telecommunications, including sales, marketing and executive positions at Raychem, Raytheon, GN Netcom, Teltone and DSC. He began his career in OSP construction at Indiana Bell. Mr. Ross is a Contributing Editor for Broadband Publishing. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Purdue University . He is a member of IEEE and the Executive Council of the International Engineering Consortium. Please RSVP to Howard Headrick at hfrjr@swbell.net. Late Addition. Friday, Oct 22, 1-5 PM, TX Union Theater, Grant Writing Workshop. The Office of Graduate Studies will be offering a free Grant Writing Workshop this Friday, October 22 from 1:00-5:00 p.m. in the Texas Union Theatre. Free refreshments will be provided courtesy of the Graduate Student Assembly. All graduate students as well as interested faculty and staff are invited to attend this free workshop. Information and on-line registration details for the Grant Writing Workshop are available at: http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdce/grantwriting.html. Sunday, Oct. 24, 1-6 PM, Waterloo Park, Student Association Picnic. We are having a picnic. So mark your calendar now! The picnic will be potluck, so be thinking of something you can cook (or buy at Central Market!). All students, faculty, staff, and alumni are invited to intend. We SASI will be providing some sodas and water to slake your thirst (alcoholic beverages are not permitted in Austin city parks) but please bring a dish (or chips or cookies or something from Central Market) to share with everyone! If you do not have something to share, come anyway, we want to see you! We can be found in the picnic area of Waterloo Park, which is located on the Red River side of the park between 15th and 12th St. The sign up sheet should be out soon on the table in front of the lab. We hope you can all make it We will be supplying a volleyball net but feel free to bring any games or other sports equipment that you would like. As the date gets closer, we will be sending out specific directions for those of you who need directions. In case of rain, check your e-mail at 10:30am for a message on The Insider that gives you directions to the alternative location for the picnic. For more information, please visit the association Website or any of the association co-directors.
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Tuesday, Oct 26,3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, Dr. Bill Lukenbill on Censorship: How well do Texas school librarians understand the current laws and court rulings? For more information, please contact Dr. Oliver Chen. Tuesday, Oct 26, 4-6 PM, LBJ 6th Floor, Dr. John Yoo, Using Force. Dr. Yoo will be speaking on using force as a tool in global politics. He is a Professor Yoo of constitutional law and international law at Berkeley's Boalt School of Law, previously clerked for Justice Clarence, and authored the USA Patriot Act. For more information, please visit the LBJ Speakers Website, or contact Megan Scarborough, via email or phone, 471-8954. Wednesday, Oct 27, 9 AM - Noon, SZB 468, Karen Benedict, Ethics and the Archival Profession. Dr. Gracy wrote, "Karen Benedict, internationally prominent archival consultant and former corporate archivist, and author of the Society of American Archivists' new publication on Ethics and the Archival Profession, will conduct my Introduction to Archival Enterprise class on the topic of Ethics and the Archival Profession." If you would like to attend or for more information, please contact Dr. Gracy via email or phone, 471-8291. Wednesday, Oct 27, 4-5:30 PM, SZB 556, Dean Dillon, Tea with the Dean. Sponsored by the student association. Dean Dillon wrote, " I look forward to seeing many of you there for free-form discussion of whatever is on your mind." This is a great chance to talk about any accomplishments, good news, or concerns that you might have! There will be warm and delicious cookies from Tiffany's Treats as well as tea and other libations. For more information, please visit the association Website or any of the association co-directors. Thursday, Oct 28 - Sunday, Oct 31, all day, State Capital, Texas Book Festival. What better way is there to celebrate the Halloween weekend than to attend the Texas Book Festival? Among the many authors attending this year will be Joyce Carol Oates, John Graves, Rick Riordan, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, H.W. Brands, Kimberley Willis Holt, and S.E. Hinton. And while you are there, consider being a part of this great event by volunteering. It takes over 800 volunteers to successfully manage the festival and we could sure use your help. Volunteer time slots are for about 2-3 hours and then you're free to enjoy the festival at your leisure. It's a great way to meet some of the authors in person and get a nifty t-shirt, all for free. Do not forget that the iSchool will have its own booth there, come by and say hi! For more information, please visit the festival Website or contact Marsha Saucier, TBF Volunteer Co-Chair Sunday, Oct 31 - Saturday, Nov 6, Archives week: Balancing Power: Government Records and Secrecy. During this time, we will be having speakers discuss matters related to government archives, security and access as well as our annual Archives Clinic. For more information, please visit the Archives Week Website or contact Mary Ann Mardock, SAA Student Chapter President.
Thursday, Nov 4, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, UT Club, TX Ex Business Network, Panel Discussion, Image, Career Transition, and the Marketplace Today. How do you differentiate yourself in a marketplace filled with top talent? Find out at our Panel Discussion. Ask the Experts! Scheduled panelists are Eleanor Derounian, Business Image Consultant; Jennifer Duncan, Director of Career Services for The Texas Exes, the alumni association for The University of Texas at Austin; and Jacque Ford, Career Consultant and Job Lead Developer. Pre-pay discounts for registrations prior to 12 noon on October 4, 2004 are $12 for Texas Exes members and $15 for non-members; registrations after then or at the door are $15 and $18 respectively. For more information please visit the event Website or contact Walt Esquivel. Saturday, Nov 13 - Thursday, Nov 18, Providence RI, ASIST Conference. The information society, especially after recent world events, is displaying an increasing tension between forces that encourage and discourage integration and cooperation. A major focus of this conference will be on conflicts and solutions involving many national and international information cultures, including social, professional, educational, and technological interests. These themes and others will be explored by plenary and invited speakers and through refereed presentations. Submissions on a wide variety of information and technology topics are solicited, including (but not limited to):
For further information and registration visit the conference Website. Thursday, Nov 18, 6:30 - 9 PM, ACE AVAYA Auditorium, IEEE, David Burnstein, The choice and comparison internationally of Fiber vs DSL over Copper vs Cable TV in providing Triple Play, IP Broadband Services VOIP, DATA and IP-TV Video in the Last Mile. What's real, and where? Will Austin ever catch up with Paris , Shanghai , and Seoul? The presentation will have three parts, with questions throughout:
David Burnstein is the editor of DSL Prime Newsletter. He writes, "I've reported the birth of an industry, the boom and bust in the U.S., and the shift to a lead in Asia. It's a great job; I get to go around the world and ask questions of the best in the business. I've learned a fair amount that way, wrote a book (DSL, Wiley 2000, with Jennie Bourne), and seen my work picked up in government reports and all." For more information please visit the IEEE Central Website or contact Howard Headrich, Chairman of the local Communications Society. section. Thursday, Nov 18 - Saturday, Nov 20, HRC Protho
Theater,
Conference, Internet, Society, and Culture: French and
American Perspectives.
For Fall 2004 the France-UT Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies is
planning a conference entitled Internet, Culture, and Society: French and
American Perspectives.
This is a timely and exciting topic which will be explored from various
perspectives, since the internet has developed multifaceted ways of
communicating with others, creating new forms of expression, and storing
knowledge, and has raised as well a host of complex questions. The
conference is organized around topics which highlight the interests and
expertise of faculty and students at the University of Texas as well as
counterparts and colleagues in France. It deals with the intersections of
the social, the cultural, and the technological in plenary sessions, round
tables, digital posters, and artistic performances. Thursday, Nov 18, 5:30 - 7 PM, JES A115 (CEC Library), Perspectives on Conscious Careering. This is the first workshop in an experiential series that will delve into the connection between work, purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. This 90-minute inquiry into perspectives on work gleaned from both Eastern and Western philosophies will serve as an introspective foundation for your next steps in conscious careering. Seating is limited to 30 people. To reserve a seat, go to the OGS Workshop Website. For more information please visit the Workshop Website or contact Lynne Levinson, CEC, via email or phone, 471-1217. Sunday, Nov 21, 4-6 PM, Bates, Choral Arts Society, Romantic Voices. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society in Anton Bruckner, Mass in E Minor, Johannes Brahms Begräbnisgesang, and Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact the music department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Tuesday, Nov 30, 3-6:30 PM, ACES Avaya Auditorium, academic publishing
meeting. Dean Lariviere writes,
"Colleagues,
Nov. 30 3-6:30 PM there will be a meeting on academic publishing.
Details of the meeting are given at
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/college_events/current/publishing/ Wednesday, Dec 1, 6:30 - 8 PM, JES A115 (CEC Library), Take Your Degree and Run With It. A career exploration workshop that is cosponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) and Career Exploration Center (CEC). Did you sprint down the career path toward academia, and then wonder whether it's the right direction for you? In this 90-minute workshop you will assess where you are, where you are going, and learn how to explore other career paths outside academia. Seating is limited to 30 people. To reserve a seat, go to the OGS Workshop Website. For more information please visit the Workshop Website or contact Lynne Levinson, CEC, via email or phone, 471-1217. Tuesday, Dec 7, 4:30 - 6 PM, JES A115 (CEC Library), Take Your Degree and Run With It. A career exploration workshop that is cosponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) and Career Exploration Center (CEC). Did you sprint down the career path toward academia, and then wonder whether it's the right direction for you? In this 90-minute workshop you will assess where you are, where you are going, and learn how to explore other career paths outside academia. Seating is limited to 30 people. To reserve a seat, go to the OGS Workshop Website. For more information please visit the Workshop Website or contact Lynne Levinson, CEC, via email or phone, 471-1217. Friday, Dec 17, 9-10 PM, Bates, Gerre and Judith Hancock, Holiday Concert. Organ works. Gerre and Judith are senior lectures in organ and sacred music in the Music School. Tickets are $28 and are available from the UT Performing Arts Center box office, 471-1444, or online. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-7764. Sunday, Jan 23, 3-5 PM, Bates, Erik Mellenbruch, Great Organ Series Benefit Concert. Eric is the Organist at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Austin. Admission, Great Organ Season Pass $44.00 , $14.00 General Public, $10.00 Student. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-7764. Monday, Feb 28, 8-10 PM, Bates, Choral Arts Society, Quintessentially French. Dr. James Morrow directs the UT Choral Arts Society in Gabriel Fauré, Requiem, Louis Vierne, Messe Solennelle, and César Franck, Psalm 150. Featuring Judith and Gerre Hancock will be at the organ. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact the choral department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Sunday, March 6, 3-5 PM, Bates, Bradley Welch, Great Organ Series Concert. Bradley is the organist at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas and the 2003 winner, of the Dallas International Organ Competition. Admission, $14.00 General Public, $10.00 Student. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-7764. Monday, May 2, 8-10 PM, Bates, Combined Concert, Classical Perfection. Mozart Mass in C Minor, (The Great) and Beethoven Choral Fantasy. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society, UT Chamber Singers,and the UT Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (The Great), and Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy. Featuring Anton Nel, piano. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact The music department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806.
Who We Are Webpage The information on the Ph.D. student Webpage is slowly growing. Names of all current Ph.D. students have been added. Your other information is needed to complete it . Please send Don a jpeg photo, information to post, and a link to your Website whenever you can. What is this Webpage? Well, as we agreed in spring semester, 2002, we wanted to have a summary page with a list of all Ph.D. students and links to more detailed information on each of us. The summary page consist of a photo, name, academic interest, contact information, and links to other pages. A detail page repeats the summary information and provides, education, a brief biography, and specialization. Students information should be linked to each student's individual Website with their vita, resume, and any other information they may wish to provide. If there is interest, we can also add Ph.D. alumni to this list. There is an input form that might work with your browser. Otherwise you can copy and paste.
Professional Associations, Email Lists, and other Forums Information on professional associations, student governance organizations, email lists and and other forums of interest to Information school Ph.D. students is provided through the Ph.D. Forums link on the left. Included is information on email lists, Blackboard, Websites and other forums.
Information School Forums The school of information sponsors weekly or fortnightly iforums (or ifora) of interest to School of Information Students and Faculty. Scholars from across the campus and occasionally from other universities are invited to present their work at a forum. From time to time, Ph.D. students are also invited to present their work to the forum. Each individual forum will be listed in the above schedule when details are known. In 2001 and 2002 , Ph.D. students organized the Ph.D. students organized a colloquia to share their work in a friendly environment. The last series we had was the Fall 2002 Ph.D. Colloquia Series. Such a series could be reestablished if there was an interest. If you are interested in leading such a series, please contact Don Drumtra for his experience on leading the 2002 Colloquia
Orientations New students (and even old) might appreciate the following
two Orientation Websites:
Disclaimer. The following information is compiled from various sources and is current as of the time it was written and the documents available. It is not official UT, Graduate School, or School of Information policy. It is offered to help Ph.D. students gain an overview of Ph.D. requirements. Please refer to official sources for current information before taking irreversible action. General. UT Graduate School requirements for award of the Ph.D. degree are listed in the UT Graduate Catalog. Detailed requirements for the School of Information are listed the provided on the Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman provided an unofficial summary of the requirements to the participants in the Fall 2004 Ph.D. Orientation. Milestones. Program milestones consist of development and approval of a Program of Study, satisfactory completion of course work and a comprehensive doctoral examination including written, oral, and research components, presentation and approval of credentials to Graduate School (including a separate Program of Work), approval of a dissertation proposal, research and completion of a dissertation culminating in a final examination consisting of defense of the the dissertation and final presentation approval of the student's credentials to the Graduate School. Administrative progress through most of these milestones is described in the Checklist for the Doctoral Program (1993). Annual reviews are submitted to the students Advising Committee so that the committee may evaluate the student's progress. The student's Supervising Committee monitors the student's progress after the student reaches candidacy. Graduate Studies Committee. Within the School of Information, the Graduate Studies Committee or GSC approves the students Program of Study and Annual review. Doctoral Program of Study. The content of the Program of Study is provided in the Guidelines for Development of the Doctoral Program of Study (ca. 1993). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved programs on their Websites. Annual Review. Required content of the Annual Reviews is provided in the Annual Review of GSLIS Doctoral Students (2002) and the Annual Review of Ph.D. Students (draft, 2003). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved Annual Reviews on their Websites. Qualifying Procedures. In order to qualify to apply for candidacy, the iSchool requires a written exam and oral defense (often called the comprehensive exam or "comps") and a research paper accepted by the student's committee. This committee (perhaps, it could be called the Examination Committee) ordinarily consists of three members of the iSchool faculty and one outside member. The three iSchool members could be your Advising Committee, potential members of your Supervising Committee, or any other three members who agree to serve. Application for Candidacy. On June 1, 2004 the UT Office of Graduate Studies automated the application for candidacy and placed it online. Instructions for completion of and a link to the actual online form is provided in the application Webpage. Other candidacy requirements are also provided on that page including the requirement for the Program of Work.
Dissertation. Requirements for the content of your dissertation are developed between you and your Supervising Committee and the Graduate School sets guidelines for format. There are two format guidelines are provided by the Graduate School (Office of Graduate Studies or OGS), print guidelines and electronic submission guidelines. Even though you must submit your dissertation electronically, you would do well to meet both guidelines because someone might very well want to print your dissertation in the future. An a point of interest, the final authority on both the content and format of your dissertation is your Supervisory Committee--not the folks in the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the OGS folks can make life really difficult for you if you do not listen to them. Dr. Harmon and eleven other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. It is posted on the UT Intellectual Entrepreneurship, Dissertation List-Serve and Resources Webpage. The Webpage also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for Ph.D. students. Final Oral Exam (Defense of Dissertation. A satisfactory final oral examination is required for the approval of a dissertation. The Office of Graduate Studies publishes the time and place of this examination. The exam is open to all members of the University community and the public, unless attendance is restricted by the Graduate Studies Committee. Information is available in the Graduate Catalog and an application form are available from the Office of Graduate Studies. Application for Graduation. There are lots of forms for graduation listed by the Office of Graduate Studies. You would be well advised to visit the office of Graduate Studies well before the deadlines to be sure you have the latest information and do not forget an essential form the absence of which might hold up your graduation. Graduation. After all that work you won't want to miss the graduation celebration and fireworks at the end of the spring semester. UT introduced a new doctoral robe in 2001, which will be first available for graduating students in May, 2005. You can be one of the first scholars to wear one. Additional Sources. The University of Texas and the UT Office of Graduate Studies provide the latest information on degree and administrative requirements requirements in three publications:
Research Methods and Other Graduate Courses The iSchool PhD Methods Courses Webpage lists many research methods courses available in the university that may be suitable for meeting the iSchool Ph.D. research methods requirements listed on the iSchool Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman has written an excellent summary that should be of particular interest. She describes her summary as follows, "yo, in case (like me) you were overwhelmed by the number of research methods courses that seemed available at UT, but were suspiciously vague in terms of description -- here is a list that I've compiled with/ course names & descriptions. the doctoral studies committee & your own advisor may be able to make further recommendations as to which would be specifically appropriate for you" (2003 Dec. 15, personal communications). Doctoral Committee recommendations will be posted on this Website as soon as they become available. Research Methods in Information Systems, MIS 381N.26. Earlier, Lisa provided us this information on a this course. "The Information Systems department in the Business School is interested in having more iSchool folk taking their courses. In particular, Ph.D. students may want to consider taking “Research Methods in Information Systems” taught by Salina Circus. I took this class last year, and it provides an excellent survey of the multitude of different research methods (both qualitative and quantitative) as applied to understanding the effects of information technology. Alina is very flexible about the core focus areas, so if a whole bunch of people want to “study X”, she'll find a way to incorporate it. If you’re a Masters student, you can take this course if you’re interested in subjecting yourself to reading a ga-zillion journal articles from the latest sexy issues of MIS Quarterly... which ain’t the “Miss Quarterly” that I was hoping for, let me tell you... The course is offered in spring 2004" (personal communications). Information provided by Lisa Kleinman. For more information about the course see the Course Webpage or contact Dr. Chircu" (2003 Oct. 31, personal communications). Graduate School Courses provide a unique opportunity for School of Information Ph.D. students because they provide a multidisciplinary atmosphere of learning. Students from across the campus attend these courses and share experiences and viewpoints form their own departments. Two courses of major interest to our programs are:
Check to Be Sure. Please do not forget however, that not all of the courses listed will be satisfactory to meet any particularly student's Ph.D. program requirements. "Since advancement to candidacy is contingent on faculty approval of a course of work, the student should consult regularly with their committee on matters of course selection" (School of Information, undated, Academic Programs, Ph.D.). Content Manager:
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