Handbooks and Forms

Handbooks

• 2017-2018 PhD handbook (.docx with working links)– updated 11-07-2017
• 2017-2018 PhD handbook (pdf) – updated 11-07-2017
• 2017-2018 MA handbook (.docx with working links) – updated 11-07-2017
• 2017-2018 MA handbook (pdf) – updated 11-07-2017

Masters Forms (in the order in which you’ll need them) 

• MA Plan of Study Tracking Form: Production Track – updated 11-07-2017
• MA Plan of Study Tracking Form: Critical Studies Track – updated 11-07-2017
• Graduate Assistantship Application (or Renewal Application) –– to be updated soon
• Thesis Advisor Agreement form – submit this when you choose an advisor during year 1
• Research Skill petition form* – submit no later than semester #3
• Request for Graduate Foreign Language Reading Examination 
• FLME 6990-6995 Authorization form – submit this when ready to register for thesis hours; critical studies students register for FLME 6990 and production students register for FLME 6995
• Sample Title Page for MA Prospectus (creative or research thesis) – bring this to your defense for your committee’s signature
• MA Thesis Formatting Template (research thesis only); Mac-users’ version here.
• Sample Title Page/Signature Sheet for final MA thesis (creative or research thesis), to be submitted to COTA Office of Graduate Studies – bring this to your defense for your committee’s signature
• Sample Title Page for MA Seminar Paper – non-thesis students only, for submission first to Graduate Director for signature, Graduate Program Coordinator for filing, then to COTA Office of Graduate Studies for graduation
• Embargo Request Form (if you plan to embargo your research thesis – ask your Thesis Advisor or Graduate Director if you’re not sure – submit your rationale and request to your Thesis Advisor for approval, then to the College of the Arts Graduate Office) – updated link forthcoming

*Note regarding research skill or foreign language requirement: Think about what skill/method you actually want to learn. A method or research skill course can be anything (taken in or outside the department) that teaches you some skill relevant to your thesis or longer-term creative plans, and it shouldn’t be solely content-based. This might be a creative writing course for a screenwriter, or an oral historiography course for a documentarian who needs to conduct good interviews, or maybe one’s thesis film is about basket weavers or a community using American Sign Language, and one needs a basket-weaving class or an ASL course in order to write about that perspective. You get the idea.

Taking a language can also fulfill this requirement. One can either take enough courses to pass a language exam, or one can actually fulfill this requirement with a single language course: a B or better in one of the Modern Language Dept’s reading classes will do it. French and Spanish are being offered in spring 2018. Seats probably go very quickly, so act fast. If you already know a language other than English (and other than your first language if that’s not English), just register for and pass the language test to fulfill the requirement.

Doctoral Student Forms

• PhD Moving Image Studies Plan of Study Tracking Form – updated 11-07-2017. Keep this up to date to track your own progress toward the degree; bring to annual plan of study meetings
• Annual Plan of Study form –– bring to annual plan of study meetings and submit signed copy to Graduate Program Coordinator
• Graduate Assistantship Application (or Renewal Application) –– to be updated soon
• Dissertation Advisor Agreement and FLME 9999 Authorization form
  
• Sample Title Page for Dissertation Prospectus –– bring this to your defense
• Dissertation Formatting Template; Mac-users’ version here.
• Sample Title Page (and Signature Sheet) for Dissertation  (for submission to College of the Arts Graduate Office) –– bring this to your defense
• Embargo Request Form (submit your rationale and request to your Dissertation Advisor for approval, then to the College of the Arts Graduate Office) –– updated link forthcoming

Miscellaneous Forms for Coursework and Registration

• Application to register for a course offered by another area university under the ARCHE program. More information here.
• FLME 6910 or FLME 8980 Special Projects / Independent Study / Directed Readings Form
• Graduate Transfer of Credit form

Plan of study tracking forms–track your progress toward the degree

• MA Plan of Study Tracking Form: Production Track – updated 11-07-2017
• MA Plan of Study Tracking Form: Critical Studies Track – updated 11-07-2017
• PhD Moving Image Studies Plan of Study Tracking Form – updated 11-07-2017

Miscellaneous forms for Assistantships and Teaching

• Library Proxy Form (GRAs only: have your Research Supervisor sign this, then submit to library’s circulation desk –– this allows you to check out materials for your Research Supervisor without those being charged against your own account)
• Fair Use Checklist – check this before posting materials for classes you teach. It’s well worth reading all the material about fair use here.
• Graduate Assistantship Application (or Renewal Application) –– to be updated soon