Master's Graduation Checklist

There are several items you will need to check before graduation clearance is granted:

• Any incomplete course(s) PR, I, NR should have a grade or CR if the course is being counted toward the degree hour requirements (70). Check your DARS report (available through Jill McKinney in Yamada International House) or request a grade report from the Office of the Registrar for the particular quarter in which you have an incomplete.
  
  
• Your GPA must be 3.0 or above
  
  
• A Graduation Check Sheet must be on file. This form lists all the courses you have taken to meet the degree requirements. Be sure that you list courses by requirement -- not by quarter. Total hours must equal 70. Click on the appropriate program to download the form:
  

  African Studies
  African Studies pre-2009

  Communication and Development Studies
  Language Track
  Non-Language Track

  International Development Studies
  Checksheet for pre-Fall 2007

  Latin American Studies

  Southeast Asian Studies
  

• Depending on your program, you must successfully complete a comprehensive written exam, comprehensive oral exam, a final research project or final grant proposal. Submit the approval forms signed by Director.
  
  
• ComDev students must have completed an internship and have submitted a report and an evaluation from your supervisor evaluating your participation in the internship.
  

• Any student completing an internship and counting 5 hours toward degree hours must have the internship packet forms completed and signed and on file.
  
  
• Thesis Students will need to submit the following:
  • Thesis Oral Defense Form with appropriate signatures
  • Thesis Check Sheet w/ signatures
  • Submit the electronic thesis to the ETD Office in conjunction with their deadlines.
    http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/etd.cfm

You will not be cleared without the above forms completed and in your file.

If you have any questions as to whether you will be cleared for graduation, please check with your Program Director.

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