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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Exercise and Health Sciences (PhD)


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Program Requirements


Complete 60 credits from 14 courses including eight required courses, five electives, and four semesters of dissertation.

Doctoral candidacy: Candidates must pass a written qualifying exam which is typically taken between the third and fourth semester from the PhD program matriculation date. Content covered in the exam is agreed upon by the major faculty advisor and the student. The exam will be completed over the course of several days within a two-week period. Students must pass all areas on either the first or second try before being allowed to continue in the program and work on their dissertation proposal.
Dissertation: Candidates must propose and ultimately compose and defend a dissertation based on original research. The dissertation document will include an introduction, rationale and hypothesis, review of the literature, description of methods, presentation of results, and discussion of the relevance of the study’s findings to the field at large. The results of the research will be presented in manuscript-ready format, including two or more separate papers that are ready to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals. The student will be required to submit at least one of these papers to a journal prior to orally defending their dissertation; the paper must be under peer review to meet this requirement.

Statute of limitations: Eight years.

Course Requirements


Electives (18 Credits)


Complete 18 credits of electives chosen with the guidance and approval of your faculty advisor.

Dissertation (24 Credits)


Complete four semesters of EHS 899 - Dissertation .

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