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“Milestones” for Graduate Study in Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University

This list enumerates the milestones intended as possible but not rigid markers for timely progress in the Doctoral Program in Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University. Each student's timeline may differ, and will be determined in consultation with a committee chair and the director of graduate studies in theatre and performance studies. These lists are approximate goals and guidelines.

For students entering with a BA only:

Year 1: Coursework, including required grad seminar and grad colloquia. Recommended six courses over the year. Participation in "Key Text" sessions.

Year 2: Coursework, including required grad seminar and grad colloquia. Qualifying Assessment by January 15. Selection of committee chair after assessment at the start of second semester. Second semester, begin to design comprehensive exam areas with committee chair. A committee should preferably be in place by the end of the second year.

Year 3: Solidification of comprehensive exam lists. Coursework in the Fall, including grad seminar. Comps should be completed by the Spring of the third year. Participation in grad colloquia.

Year Four: Participation in grad colloquia. Completion of Language Requirement and writing of Dissertation Proposal. Dissertation research fully underway in the Spring semester.

Year Five: Dissertation underway, Participation in grad colloquia.

For students entering with Masters equivalency accepted:

Year 1: Coursework, including required grad seminar and grad colloquia. Recommended six courses over the year. Participation in "Key Text" sessions.

Year 2: Coursework, including required grad seminar and grad colloquia. Qualifying Assessment by January 15. Selection of committee chair after assessment at the start of second semester (if not before). Serious work begun on comprehensive exam areas. Selection of full committee and preliminary comprehensive exam lists by end of Spring semester.

Year 3: Comps in the Fall. If the comps are to be taken in the Spring, courses should be taken in the Fall. Participation in grad colloquia. Language requirement should be completed by this year if possible.

Year Four: Dissertation proposal accepted and Dissertation underway. Participation in grad colloquia.

Year Five: Dissertation writing. Participation in grad colloquia.

 

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