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When the majority of the student's coursework is satisfactorily completed, the student must pass a qualifying examination. The qualifying exam consists of a written Doctoral Project Plan, followed by an oral examination. Once their Doctoral Project Plan has been approved, the student will submit the Qualifying Examination Application in Archivum. The qualifying exam is not open to the public, no announcement will be sent. In order to qualify to take the exam, students must:
Written Part of the Qualifying Exam The qualifying exam will consist of a written Doctoral Project Plan that describes the proposed doctoral project, followed by an oral examination that relates the content, approach, and deliverables of the project to the DrPH competencies in the student's concentration. The examination will be administered and evaluated by the student's doctoral project committee. The student should begin working with their Major Professor early in the program to develop ideas for their doctoral project. The student should then work with the Major Professor and other committee members as needed on completing the Doctoral Project Plan prior to submission for evaluation. The written Doctoral Project Plan must follow the guidelines described in the Doctoral Project Plan document below, and will be evaluated based on the Doctoral Project Plan Rubric found here. Once approved by the Major Professor, the student will notify the committee members of intention to be examined on the Doctoral Project Plan and will schedule the oral examination with the committee members at a mutually agreeable time. The oral examination will take place via Microsoft Teams. The student must submit the final draft of the written Doctoral Project Plan to the committee members a minimum of two weeks prior to the scheduled oral examination. The student must submit the written Doctoral Project Plan to the DrPH Director a minimum of 4 weeks prior to the proposed start of the oral examination, for review and approval. Once the Doctoral Project Plan and Qualifying Exam form has been approved by all parties, the Office of Doctoral Training will send an meeting invite to the oral part of the exam Oral Part of the Qualifying Exam On the day of the oral part of the Qualifying Exam, students present their written Doctoral Project Plan:
Following the qualifying exam, the committee members convene to make the final determination of the appropriateness of the doctoral project being proposed and to deliberate recommendations for changes. The score sheet for the oral exam can be found here. When a student passes the Qualifying Exam his/her committee may still require modifications to the Doctoral Project Plan at a later date. The committee must approve changes to the Doctoral Project if the student initiates them.
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