Graduate resources



  • Annual Progress Report - form

    Submit your annual progress report to your supervisor every 12-months. This is a review of accomplishments and milestones achieved and is a constructive tool to move forward successfully.

The Department of Computer Science believes that any candidate for a PhD degree, before graduating, must show a firm grasp of the overall field of Computer Science. The PhD breadth requirement ensure that this goal is fulfilled, normally by taking advanced CSC courses in a broad range of categories and areas.

Graduate Directed Study (CSC 591) Guidelines 

Information for Students & Instructors

Complete the Pro Forma proposal form.

Please add a rationale section to the ProForma form explaining:

  1. why the directed studies is needed, and
  2. the relationship of the course to the student's existing thesis work. A few sentences should suffice.

Remarks:

  • The proposed directed study should not have significant overlap with the thesis research, as thesis research receives separate academic credit.
  • The Associate Chair, Graduate will sign the ProForma after the instructor and supervisor have completed the form.  
  • Note to CSC 591 instructors:  while the instructors of CSC 591 do not receive teaching credit towards course relief, CSC 591 supervision remains a positive contribution to teaching.

 


 
You will find more graduate forms on the Graduate Studies forms website such as:

  • Graduate Registration - late registration, undergraduate courses, courses outside your home department, audit or for no credit, or section change after the registration deadline
  • Program Update - adjust the requirements of a regular graduate program, to request transfer credit, or to indicate that a program requirement has been met (eg., candidacy exam completion)
  • Enrolment Verification letter
  • Request for Oral Examination (ROE) - Master's
  • Request for Oral Examination (ROE) - PhD
  • Thesis/dissertation Approval
  • Request for Program Extension
  • Request for Candidacy Extension
  • Pro Forma proposal (directed study)
  • Course Retention Request for Returning or Transferring Students - graduate students who have withdrawn from a UVic program and would now like to return to the same program, or who are requesting to transfer from one UVic program to another
  • External Examiner's Confirmation of Arm's-Length Status    
  • Travel Grant application
  • Western Dean's Agreement