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Timeline

Approximate Time in Program Action Outcome
Fall                Year One Meet with Director of Educational Affairs to map our first semester
  • Fall and tentative spring courses confirmed
Fall                Year One Register for Journal Club and Attend Seminar
  • Completion of these courses every semester until writing on dissertation begins
Spring          Year One Meet with Director of Educational Affairs to confirm spring semester
  • Spring courses confirmed
Spring          Year One Meet with Director of Educational Affairs and/or Academic Program Manager to review an academic progress report at end of year one
  • Academic Progress Report is completed, accepted and kept on file.
Fall                Year Two Choose a mentor for thesis in preparation for qualifying exam
  • Thesis advisor selected
Fall                Year Two Select a thesis project topic
  • Topic selected
Spring           Year Two Actively working on qualifying exam2
  • Qualifying exam may be taken as early as end of this semester but must be completed no later than end of the summer.*
Spring         Year Two Meet with Thesis Advisor and/or Director of Educational Affairs to review an academic progress report at end of year one
  • Academic Progress Report is completed by mid-May, accepted and kept on file.
Post-Year   Two Within 2 months of completion of the qualifying exam set up a meeting with your thesis committee. This committee is made up in consultation with the sponsor.
  • Established thesis committee.
  • This information is submitted via email to the Academic Program Manager
  • First meeting scheduled and completed.
  • Thesis Committee Form completed and submitted to Academic Program Manager
Post-Year   Two Complete thesis work and meet with thesis committee every six months.
  • Met with committee 2x in the calendar year
  • Submitted a Thesis Committee Form to Academic Program Manager
Post-Year   Two Yearly seminar presentation followed up with a bi-annual Thesis Committee Meeting. This occurs up until dissertation defense
  • Met with committee 2x in the calendar year
  • Submitted a Thesis Committee Form to Academic Program Manager
End of year until program completed Academic Progress Report is reviewed with primary advisor
  • Academic Progress Report is completed by mid-May, accepted and kept on file.
Upon completion of thesis work Finalize dissertation committee membership (see Dissertation Committee Formation section of this handbook)
  • Thesis writing begins
  • Feedback received from thesis advisor
  • Identify a thesis reader who is a dissertation committee member who is on faculty at Columbia
Thesis writing completed Schedule dissertation defense with the assistance of the Academic Program Manager
  • Defend
Post Defense Make corrections to thesis and deposit with OSA
  • See OSA rules for dissertation deposit3

1 This time line was created as an outline for a Full-time student. Part-time students will need to adjust this schedule as needed with the assistance of Dr. Freyer, Alysa Turkowitz and/or their primary advisor.

2 The qualifying exam represents a standing committee of four EHS Faculty Members: Dr. Greg Freyer, Dr. Pat Kinney, Dr. Matt Perzanowski and the student’s thesis advisor

3 Upon completion of the qualifying exam you must register for DrPH Continuous Registration and Journal Club. Please see the Continuous Registration in this handbook for more details on this information.

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