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School of Engineering

• Doctorate Program
• SoE Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Guidelines
• SoE Doctoral Dissertation Defense Guidelines
• SoE PhD Comprehensive Examination Guidelines
• SoE Doctoral Studies Checklist
• ENGR 991 Directed Study - Doctoral Qualification

Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Approval: After the student completes all graduate coursework as described in the Academic Advising Handbook and passes the Doctoral Comprehensive Exam, he/she is officially admitted to Candidacy. The chair endorses the student’s candidacy in Part 4 of the Doctoral Comprehensive Examination and Admission to Candidacy form (Form SOE-C1) and sends it to the dean’s office for approval. Then the candidate must identify a major professor and a topic for the doctoral dissertation. Working with the major professor, the candidate prepares a proposal for the dissertation and seeks approval following the procedure outlined below:

• The major professor must be a full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty within the School of Engineering.
• Normally, readers are selected from full-time, tenure-track faculty within the School. However, to take full advantage of research resources at CUA and within the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, some readers may be external members to the School. However, in these cases, the full committee (major professor + readers) MAY NOT be comprised of a majority of external members. All readers should be active researchers in the area of the dissertation topic. Curriculum vitae for external members including a list of publications in the last few years should be submitted to the department chair for review. Adjunct faculty are considered external faculty.
• The candidate fills out the Doctoral Dissertation Topic and Committee: Request for Approval Form and submits it to the department chair for preliminary endorsement (on checklist form).
• Only after the dissertation is approved by the department chair, the candidate presents the  dissertation proposal at a public meeting attended by graduate students, faculty, and the dissertation committee. The audience will have an opportunity to question the candidate regarding the dissertation topic . After the presentation, taking into account the comments of the examining committee, the candidate will modify the proposal and/or the dissertation’s scope, as appropriate. If needed, another presentation may be required. Then, a finalized dissertation proposal is submitted to the dissertation committee for its approval.
• After the dissertation proposal is approved by the dissertation committee, the major professor submits the proposal to the faculty of the department and presents the proposal on behalf of the candidate at a departmental meeting. The major professor requests the faculty to approve the dissertation proposal.
• After the faculty approves the dissertation proposal, the candidate submits the Doctoral Dissertation Topic and Committee: Request for Approval Form to the department chair and the dean for their final endorsements. After the dean’s endorsement, the form is submitted to the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies. 

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• Registration for Courses : Explains registration for new students, courses taken outside Catholic University, and deadlines for audit, add/drop, and withdrawal.
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• Washington Theological Consortium : Use this form to register for courses at member institutions of the Washington Theological Consortium. 

Student Advisement Explains meetings between advisors and advisees, when to hold them, what should be discussed, and the responsibilities of advisor and advisee.

Academic Dishonesty This document sets out the appeals procedure for The School of Theology and Religious Studies, in accord with the Student Academic Dishonesty Policy.

Languages Explains process for choosing languages to study, and taking the language exam Comprehensive Examinations Explains the registration process, times and dates comps are given, who creates the exam, exam day procedures, and specific details for each degree's exam.

Admission to Candidacy for Doctoral Degrees Requirements and procedures for receiving candidacy for Ph.D., S.T.D., and D.Min. degrees.

Dissertation Defense and Treatise Presentation Dates

Thesis and Dissertation Information

• Thesis and Dissertation Proposals . Explains the requirements and process for submitting a proposal in the M.A., S.T.L. or Doctoral level.
• Preparing the Doctoral Defense . Explains the responsibilities of the director, student and the Assistant to the Graduate Director and the process of depositing the thesis or dissertation.

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Canon Law Collection

The Canon Law collection contains approximately 18,700 volumes that are located in the Canon Law Library, Mullen Library stacks, and the Rare Books/Special Collections Department. Some Eastern Church canon law can be found in the Semitics/ICOR Library. The collection is one of five major collections in the United States. Approximately a third of the collection was printed before 1800. The call number system at Catholic University is a modification of the Library of Congress call number system. ‘ BV ’ specifies Canon Law and ‘ K ’ specifies civil law.

Most reference material in Canon Law can be found in the Canon Law Reading Room (non-circulating).  Access to this room is limited to Canon Law students.  Check the WRLC catalog for material that could be applicable to your topic.

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School of Canon Law Citation Requirements

The School of Canon Law has a standard to be observed in writing JCL theses and JCD dissertations. Please refer to the School of Canon Law Style Manual below.

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Graduate Studies

• Doctoral Forms
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All of the forms listed below are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.

PLEASE NOTE : To complete the forms, print the forms out or save the files to your computer, the latest version of Adobe Reader is required.

To create a PDF, you can follow this link from Adobe (using Adobe CreatePDF) for further direction and guidance.

Program Forms

• Application for Admission to Candidacy for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy
• Instructions for Preparing the Proposal
• Request for Change in Doctoral Dissertation Committee
• Request for Change in Doctoral Dissertation Title
• Ph.D. Requirements Checklist
• Oral Examination Instructions for the School Administrative Assistant
• Oral Examination Instructions for the Secretary of the Examination Board
• Request for Academic Leave and Withdrawal

Doctoral Dissertation Publishing, Indexing, and Open Access Forms

• ETD @ CUA Submission Licensing Statement
• This is a "crash course" on copyright law, as prepared by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Administration and Dean of Graduate Studies, in conjunction with the Office of General Counsel.
• This is an in-depth explanation of copyright law, again prepared by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Administration and Dean of Graduate Studies, in conjunction with the Office of General Counsel.

Both the Catholic University Copyright Information and Explanation of Licenses and Copyrights policy statements will be helpful in completing the ETD@CUA Submission Licensing Statement . All doctoral students are encouraged to read through these statements before submitting the ETD@CUA Submission Licensing Statement .

• This form can be used only by those who have already earned their doctorate from Catholic University, who are publishing their doctoral dissertation with an outside company or publishing house, and that company/publishing house requires the revocation of open access from our library system before publication would begin.
• All competed forms must be submitted to the John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library staff for processing.
• If you need assistance completing and submitting this form, please contact the Office of Graduate Studies or the John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library staff .