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After the faculty advisor has given his/her approval, the thesis is to be submitted to the thesis committee members for their feedback and suggestions. Committee members should be given at least four weeks to provide feedback. At the end of this period, committee members may require students to make changes to the thesis. Only after all committee members have given their approval should a thesis defense date be scheduled. Students should include a faculty member (other than the 3 committee members) to chair the committee. At the Masters level the chair can be from within the Human Development and Family Science Department or from other departments/colleges throughout the University. This person will act as the representative of the Graduate School and will moderate the thesis defense.  Read up on the procedures for graduate students defending theses or dissertations found at the Graduate School graduation requirements page.  All M.S. students must complete a Request for Examination form, at least three weeks prior to your defense date.

Defenses may only be scheduled during the fall and spring semesters. All thesis defenses are open to the public and students are expected to provide the departmental administrative assistant with an abstract of their thesis two weeks prior to the defense. One copy of the thesis should be made available in the departmental office for public reading two weeks prior to the defense. 

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The student is required to develop a proposal outline for their comprehensive exam outlining the confirmed topic, its significance, and the methods to be used in conducting the review (e.g., textual review, meta-analysis, etc.). The proposal outline also should include a preliminary list of at least 15 empirical references from the last 10 years of research that will form the basis of the proposal.  The detailed proposal outline (no more than 5 pages excluding references) must be approved by the student’s doctoral advisor prior to the student’s submission to the Graduate Director (see date listed in Table 1).  The proposal is a 5-page document that provides an overview of your proposed topic and how you will approach it. For the most part, students have proposed systematic textual reviews on a specific topic that is related to what they would like to do for their thesis. The proposal should include an introduction to the topic (1 page), a brief literature review that introduces the concepts that you plan to study and the current limitations of the field (2 pages), theory that frames the topic (1 page), and methodology (how and where would you search for articles to include in your review; ideally you should do this and discuss the number of articles that you found in the search and will review – 1 page).　 The references should be included at the end in APA style.  The Graduate Director will disseminate the proposal to the Assessment Committee for review. Once the  Assessment Committee approves the proposal, the advisor will notify the Graduate Director, who will inform the student that they have been approved to begin the comprehensive exam following the appropriate dates in Table 1.  

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