Current graduate students
- FGS Graduate Supervision Policy
- Survival Guide Book
- New Student To Do List
- Graduate Training Handbook: This is the Department's "official" program information (e.g., supervisory committee structures, degree requirements, general expectations of students and supervisors). These Regulations are reviewed annually in the summer, and students are expected to abide by the Regulations that are/were in effect at the time of their appointment into the specific (i.e., Masters or Doctoral) program.
- Manual for the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology
- Thesis Writing Starter Kit
- Preparing to Defend Your Thesis or Dissertation
- MA/PHD Student’s Checklist: Completing your degree requirements
- Authorship Guidelines: Note that this is the same as Appendix K in the Graduate Program Regulations.
- Student Representatives: Graduate Student Administrative Roles in the Department
- Graduate Student Ombuddy
- A peer who is available to discuss a problem/concern, offer advice, and serve as an advocate on behalf of the student (only if requested to do so!), on a confidential basis. The current ombuddy is Breanna McCreary
- Graduate Student Representatives
- Psychology Graduate Student Council (PGSC) website
- Yearly cycle for Psychology Graduate student awards
- UCR completion forms: clinical students
- Candidacy Exams
- Candidacy Exam Examination Plan & Completion Memo: Must be signed by the student's supervisor and the Grad Advisor – Note: as of September 2010 doctoral students must register for Psyc693 (candidacy exam) for each term until the exam is completed. Once you have completed both exams (Major and Minor if you are in an experimental program; Clinical candidacy exam and specialty area exam if you are in the clinical program), have your supervisor initiate the completion of this form by filling it in, signing it and leaving it for the Grad Advisor to sign and process.
- Request for Extension of Candidacy Exam: Must originate from supervisor
- Thesis/Dissertation Proposal
- Thesis/Dissertation Oral Defence
- Thesis & dissertation - Students - University of Victoria (uvic.ca)
- Grad Advisor's checklist: Review and prepare all documentation on this checklist and bring it to your meeting with the Grad Advisor
- Request for Oral Exam form - Doctoral or Masters : To be signed by your committee and the Grad Advisor prior to submitting your thesis/dissertation to Grad Studies when scheduling your defense
- External Examiner Confirmation of Arm's Length Status Form
- Signature and other pages to include in thesis/dissertation:
- Thesis approval (bring to oral defence)
- Thesis/dissertation withholding form
- Request for Extension of Program form: Must originate from supervisor
- TA Teaching Effectiveness Questionnaire: You can ask the course instructor to administer this questionnaire to the class that you are assisting. This feedback may be helpful to you, and may also be used in nominations for TA Excellence Awards.
- TA Checklist: You and the instructor complete this form together at the beginning of a TA appointment, and revisit it about halfway through the appointment.
Merit awards are available to graduate students in various graduate programs in Psychology. Students are selected and nominated for these awards by the Graduate Executive Committee in September of each year
Students enrolled in a graduate program in the Psychology department at UVic will be notified and invited to apply in August.
- Faculty of Graduate Studies - for information relevant to all UVic graduate students
- Office of Graduate Records
- Goals for academia-bound grad students (by Steve Lindsay)
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Click here to find out about the LATHE graduate teaching certificate.
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