Language Sciences
College of Letters & Science

My LangSci

Lang Sci internal documents, forms, and procedures

 

Graduate Handbook

How to…?

  • Enroll in courses:
    1. Meet with your faculty advisor to discuss course plan.
    2. Email Becky your approved course plan, copying your advisor. Becky will authorize you to enroll.
  • Change my faculty advisor:
    1. Ask the new advisor if they agree to be your advisor.
    2. Inform your previous advisor of the change.
    3. Email Becky with notification of the change.
  • Declare my PhD Minor:
    1. Meet with your faculty advisor for approval.
    2. If completing an external PhD Minor, meet with the advisor of the external program (not needed for a distributed minor).
    3. Declare the PhD Minor in the Grad Portal in MyUW (see the PhD Minor page for more information).
  • Ask a question about Benefits – email TBD
  • Request an exception to the PhD requirements (substitute a different course for a requirement, request an extension on a deadline, etc.):
    1. Speak with your faculty advisor for approval first.
    2. Email DPC chair Becky with details of your request.
  • Schedule my Prelim or dissertation defense:
    1. Work with your committee to schedule the defense.
    2. Fill out the defense scheduling form as soon as the date is set.
    3. Send final draft to all committee members at least 2 weeks before scheduled defense date.
    4. Make sure to check the Grad School deadlines to understand when your change of status (conferral of degree or advance to dissertator status) will take effect.
  • Receive my MA degree:
    1. Once you have completed all the MA coursework requirements, and scheduled your first Prelim defense, make sure to add the Linguistics MA to your enrolled plans in your MyUW Grad Portal (see here for instructions).
    2. Consult the Grad School’s deadlines page for information about timing and when your MA degree will be conferred.
  • Request funding for travel to present at a conference or to support research activity:
    1. Contact Pang Thao before purchasing items. You must use Concur, and may be able to use the department card for some items.
    2. To apply for department funding, Email Rajiv with description of your requested event/activity, a budget, and total amount of support requested.
    3. See the Travel tab for links to forms and important policies.
    4. Also consider applying for funding from the Graduate School (currently open only to dissertators).

Advising documents

How to…?

  • Reserve a room for colloquia, special event, etc. – email Becky
  • Request a key to a room – check if a spare key is available, if not email Pang
  • Order supplies and equipment – email Pang and Rajiv
  • Share news item for our social media – Send photo and text to share to our social media intern G Sorensen
  • Grant a student permission to enroll in a course or independent study – email Becky
  • Hire a student hourly worker or PA/RA – email L&S hiring specialist and copy Pang with details of your hire (student name and ID, salary, funding string, hiring period, job title and type).
  • Update my website profile or research page info – email Becky