Course Detail
Units:
1.0 - 6.0
Course Components:
Research
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing OR Instructor Consent.
Description
Develop a PhD proposal with close supervision of the student's adviser and committee as part of the Qualifying Examination. Student determines the current state of knowledge and identifies unsolved aspects of the topic. He/she selects one of the unsolved problems and develops an idea, which might lead to an acceptable solution by means of experimental and/or analytical research. The student prepares a written proposal which presents the research problem and a proposed approach to the solution.