Graduate Student Research Leave
Contingent on available resources, PhD students in good standing may be able to enroll in one semester of research leave during one-of-four timepoints during their program (spring of 2nd year, fall of 3rd year, spring of 3rd year, or fall of 4th year). The student must pursue their own line of research and be supervised by a faculty member. The student must register for no fewer than 6 research credits of COM 699. The supervising faculty member will provide guidance throughout the research leave and ultimately assign a grade of satisfactory/unsatisfactory at the end of the semester.
It is expected that the student will take this research leave to develop and carry out their own independent research project(s) (e.g., completing their preliminary paper, conducting pilot studies for their dissertation, completing their dissertation prospectus).
At the conclusion of the research leave (i.e., last week of the semester), the student must submit a summary (no more than 2-pages) to the Director of Graduate Studies detailing their research accomplishments during their leave. In the semester following their research leave, the student will be required to present their research project(s) to the Lamb School via a brown-bag colloquium coordinated by the Director of Graduate Studies. If a student does not submit their research summary and present their research to the Lamb School at a colloquium, they will be ineligible for summer teaching opportunities during the remainder of their program.