Oral Defense of a Dissertation

After the proposal has been approved, the candidate proceeds to dissertation research and writing under the guidance of the dissertation committee. When the dissertation committee agrees that the dissertation is complete, the candidate will participate in a public Oral Defense of Thesis of approximately two hours’ duration. A copy of the student’s dissertation is submitted to the Department of Linguistics two weeks prior to the defense date so that is available to the public to review. The Defense will be conducted by the dissertation committee and chaired by the dissertation mentor.

More information about the Dissertation Defense.