DISSERTATION FORMS & RESOURCES

Some Important Notes:  

• All forms located on department website are to be submitted to ‘department’ graduate office. All forms located on GradSpace (Blackboard) are to be submitted to ‘The Graduate School’. 
• Forms requiring the signature of the department chair may be signed by the Director of Graduate Studies.  These forms can be left off at the department’s Graduate Office, A203G PDB for signature. Forms needing to be turned in at the graduate school will be returned to the student’s departmental mailbox.
• Required information on forms that committee members need to sign at the defense should be completed by the student ahead of time.

Informational Documents

· Guidelines for the Operation of the Graduate Program (rules of the Department of Psychology) are located at: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Guidelin.htm

· Forms and instructions for submitting manuscripts electronically are available on Blackboard (students use the GradSpace site and faculty/staff use the Graduate School-Faculty/Staff site). See the section entitled Manuscript Clearance.

· See Enrollment Instructions for information concerning university requirements. – Enrollment Information

Dissertation Prospectus:

· Clinical and Social students only:

1) After the committee has been formed complete the Doctoral Supervisory Committee Form http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Doctoral_Supervisory_Committee.htm. This form must be completed and submitted to the 'department' graduate office no later than the second week of classes in the semester that the student intends to graduate.

2) At prospectus meeting have committee sign Doctoral Program of Studies form

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Doctoral_Program_Studies.htm (complete and attach to this form the appropriate Program Area Checklist; see below).

      Clinical Psychology http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Clinical_Checklist.htm

      Social Psychology http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Social_Checklist.htm

At conclusion of prospectus defense:

· Have your committee sign the Defense Report Form http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Defense_Report.htm

Prior to Dissertation Defense:

· Two weeks prior to defense submit Defense Announcement Form http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Defense_Announcement.htm Note The Graduate School also requires the defense be announced at the following link https://netprod.oti.fsu.edu/Defense_Announcement See Forms under Manuscript Clearance Section of GradSpace.

· Student submits manuscript (www.etdadmin.com/fsu) four weeks before defense, when students sends manuscript to committee. See The Manuscript Clearance Process under Manuscript Clearance Section of GradSpace.

At conclusion of defense:

· Have committee sign the Manuscript Signature Form see Forms under Manuscript Clearance section of GradSpace. The faculty no longer need to sign the second page of the ETD (formerly called Signature Page of the manuscript), which will simply be a page listing the date of defense and the committee members.

· Have committee sign the Defense Report Form http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Defense_Report.htm

· Give University Representative Doctoral Defense Report Form to outside committee member to complete and turn in to The Graduate School. The form is available in Forms and Documentation section in the Manuscript Clearance section of GradSpace.

· Have Major Professor sign Final Term Degree Clearance Form see Forms under Manuscript Clearance section of GradSpace. The Director of Graduate Studies (Dr. Plant) signature is also required, followed by signature of Arts & Sciences Dean's Representative and finally submission to The Graduate School.

· For a complete list of university paperwork requirements see Manuscript Clearance section of GradSpace then Forms section then Forms Checklists then Dissertation Forms Checklist.

· Contact Information Form. Due date for form is date of graduation. http://www.psy.fsu.edu/grad.prog/docs/Contact_Information_Form.htm

Note: Students are required to complete entire clearance of their final manuscript within 60 days of their defense date, or they will have to re-defend.