Checklist and Timeline for Master’s Degree
Proposal
 Register for thesis hours (PSY 6950).
 Keep in mind, you cannot go above 35 hours of thesis hours.
 Fill out and submit the ‘Application for Update of Graduate Academic Program’ form to
add the Master’s degree to your record (DARS) (college-level form).
 You can retrieve this form from Karyl Jones in Porter 200 or the Advising Center
in Porter 206.
 Submit to Karyl Jones, and Karyl will deliver to the appropriate party (College of
Arts & Sciences).
 Fill out and submit the ‘Request for Master’s Thesis Committee’ form (department-level
form).
 You can retrieve this form from Karyl Jones in Porter 200 or the Advising Center
in Porter 206.
 Submit to Karyl Jones, and Karyl will deliver to appropriate party (Assistant
Chair for Graduate Studies).
 Department Requirements: Thesis committees must include three members. At
least two of the three members must be Group I psychology faculty, one of whom
must be the chair. The third member of the committee may be a Group I or Group
II faculty member from the Department of Psychology or a Group I faculty
member from another department at Ohio University. Exceptions are permitted
with the pre-approval of the Assistant Chair of Graduate Studies. Additional
committee members (beyond the required three) are also permitted. Once the
committee has been formed, its membership should not change. If some need
arises for changing the membership, see the Assistant Chair for Graduate Studies.
All members of a thesis committee must approve the thesis proposal as well as the
completed thesis.
 Schedule a date and time that works for you and all Committee members so you can
propose your thesis.
 Submit a copy of your thesis to your committee members at least 14 days prior
to your scheduled oral thesis proposal!
 Take the ‘Department of Psychology Report of the Thesis Proposal Meeting’
form with you to your meeting, and have the committee members sign the form
after you successfully propose your thesis. BTW, Congratulations!
i. You can retrieve this form from Karyl Jones in Porter 200 or the Advising
Center in Porter 206.
ii. Submit a copy of the completed form to Karyl after successfully proposing
your thesis, and Karyl will deliver to appropriate party (Assistant Chair for
Graduate Studies).
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iii. Note: If forms are approved by appropriate parties, you will not receive
word about this approval unless you ask Karyl or email Arts & Sciences to
verify. You will receive word if there is an issue with any of the forms.
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Defense
 Apply for Graduation in the semester you expect to defend your thesis.
 Go to https://www.ohio.edu/registrar/info/spring2015-16/gradapp.htm to find out
the application deadline for the semester.
i. Insert the correct semester (fall/spring) and year (2015-2016/2016-2017)
in the HTML URL above to view correct deadlines for that particular
semester.
ii. For instance, if you’d like to see the deadlines for Fall 2016-2017, the
URL would end with: /fall2016-2017/gradapp.htm
 Remember, the deadline to defend the thesis to graduate in a certain semester is
usually at the beginning of April of that semester (if spring) or mid-November of
that semester (if fall).
 Remember, the deadline to apply for graduation to graduate in a certain semester
is usually late February of that semester (if spring) or late September of that
semester (if fall).
 If you apply for graduation on time, but then miss the defense deadline or another
university-related deadline, you will need to reapply for graduation the next
semester or the semester you plan to graduate (the fee is $5). In addition, you will
need to be taking at least one thesis (PSY 6950) hour the semester you actually
graduate.
 Fill out and submit the ‘TAD Submission Form’ to TAD services (tad@ohio.edu) (TADlevel form) at some point before you defend your thesis.
 https://www.ohio.edu/graduate/etd/TAD-Forms-and-Templates.cfm is the website
where you can retrieve the above form. You can also retrieve it from the Advising
Center in Porter 206.
 At some point before you defend your thesis, email your updated thesis in Word format
to TAD services (tad@ohio.edu) for the ‘Pre-oral defense document format review’.
 Fill out and submit the ‘Arrangements for the Oral Thesis Examination/Dissertation
Defense’ form at least 14 days prior to your scheduled oral thesis defense (collegelevel form).
 www.ohio.edu/cas/dean/graduate-studies/forms.cfm is the website where you can
retrieve the above form.
 Submit to Karyl Jones, and Karyl will deliver to appropriate party (Assistant
Chair for Graduate Studies/Arts & Sciences).
 Submit a copy of your thesis to your committee members at least 14 days prior to your
scheduled oral thesis defense!
 Experimental Only: Bring the ‘Approval of Scholarly Tool’ (department-level form) to
your thesis defense to assure your committee approves the content of your scholarly tool.
 You can retrieve this form from Karyl Jones in Porter 200 or the Advising Center
in Porter 206.
 Submit to Karyl Jones, and Karyl will deliver to appropriate party (Assistant
Chair for Graduate Studies).
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 Fill out and submit the ‘Report on the Oral Thesis Examination/Dissertation Defense’
form after successfully defending your thesis orally (department & university-level
form).
 www.ohio.edu/cas/dean/graduate-studies/forms.cfm is the website where you can
retrieve the above form.
 Submit a copy of the completed form to Karyl Jones, and Karyl will deliver to
appropriate party (TAD Services and the College of Arts and Sciences).
 Email the FINAL post-defense Word file to TAD services (tad@ohio.edu).
 You may need to go back-and-forth with TAD a couple of times to perfect your
formatting.
 Complete the OhioLINK ETD Center process for submitting your thesis electronically
(TAD email should arrive with instructions). Note: Keep in mind the ‘Delayed
Publication Request Form’ is an option.
 Why request a publication delay?: Publication delays are generally requested if
students are concerned that placing theses or dissertations online at the OU
Library or with ProQuest/UMI may restrict their ability to publish derived or
exact text from theses or dissertations (in the form of books, articles, poems, or
short stories) after graduation. Publication delays are also used if a patent
regarding the project is pending.
 Confirm that the TAD process is complete (TAD email should arrive with confirmation).
 Congratulations!
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