Forms and Deadlines

All graduate students are to submit their Degree Planning Sheet (DPS) and other appropriate department POS documentation, forms, at the same time as submitting the electronic Graduate College Academic Plan Form in Workday according to the following English Department graduate program deadlines (does not include counting summer semesters):

September 18, 2023—Fall 2023
February 19, 2024—Spring 2024

• 2nd semester of coursework for MA program graduate assistants (GAs)
  (or non-GA MA students upon completion of 9 POS credit hours)
• 4th semester of coursework for MFA program graduate assistants (GAs)
  (or non-GA MFA students upon completion of 27 POS credit hours)
• 5th semester of coursework for PhD program graduate assistants (GAs)
  (or non-GA PhD students upon completion of 36 POS credit hours)

Academic Plan Related Forms

• Academic Plan (Workday)
• Language Requirement Form
• Expired Course Petition
• POS Waiver/Substitution Petition
• Prerequisite Equivalency Petition
• Transfer Credit Petition
• Engl 5900: Special Topics (Independent Study) Request Form

This includes  current student requests for new appointments, reassignments, and extensions

(If you currently have a graduate assistantship with the English department and have remaining semesters of eligibility after the spring semester at the end of the academic year, you do not have to reapply.)

Deadline—January 15, 2024

Downloadable PDF document of application requirements in links to online submissions

ALT Examinations Committee 2023-24

Sinem Sonsaat Hegelheimer (sonsaat@iastate.edu) (Chair)
Gulbahar Beckett (bbeckett@iastate.edu)
Gary Ockey (gockey@iastate.edu)

RPC Examinations Committee 2023-24

Maggie LaWare (mlaware@iastate.edu) (Chair)
Abram Anders (adanders@iastate.edu)
Charles Kostelnick (chkostel@iastate.edu)

PhD Portfolio Submissions

All portfolios are due by 11:59pm (midnight) on the announced deadlines below.

PhD Annual Reviews

All ALT and RPC doctoral students must complete Annual Reviews each year by the following deadlines according to the procedures and forms downloadable on the graduate program Forms website.

PhD Portfolio & Preliminary Examination Forms

• PhD Portfolio Assessment Student ID Memo
• RPC Reading List Approval Memo
• RPC Preliminary Written Examination (template for Major Professor)

PhD Preliminary Oral Examination Forms

• Preliminary Oral Examination Request (now online initiated by the student via a link from the Graduate College Forms website)
• Committee Member Substitution for Preliminary Oral Examination
• Report of Preliminary Oral Examination (Major Professor receives email with link to online Graduate College form for their specific student)

The Progress to Degree Checklists are designed to help students navigate their progress to degree by providing a chronological framework that, semester by semester, lists significant milestones, forms, and ideas to consider as students fulfill Program of Study (POS) requirements and begin their professionalization.

• Master’s Programs in English, RCPC, TESL/AL
• MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment
• PhD Program in Applied Linguistics and Technology
• PhD Program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication

The DPS helps students plan and document how they will meet program of study requirements, and they will work on this form in consultation with their program advisor/major professor. This departmental form also serves as a useful tool to help students complete the online Graduate College Program of Study and Committee Form (POSC) in their AccessPlus account. If changes were made to program requirements after your entry in the program, you can choose to follow the POS requirements in place when you began the program or you can choose to follow the new POS requirements.

• Applied Linguistics and Technology PhD (effective Spring 2023)*
• Applied Linguistics and Technology PhD (effective Fall 2019)
• Applied Linguistics and Technology PhD (prior to Fall 2019)
• Creative Writing & Environment MFA (effective Spring 2023)*
• Creative Writing & Environment MFA (prior to Spring 2023)
• English MA (effective Fall 2023)*
• English MA (prior to Fall 2023)
• Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication MA (effective Spring 2023)*
• Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication MA (effective temp Fall 2021)
• Rhetoric and Professional Communication PhD (effective Spring 2023)*
• Rhetoric and Professional Communication PhD (effective temp Fall 2021)
• Rhetoric and Professional Communication PhD (prior to Spring 2021)
• TESL/Applied Linguistics MA (effective Fall 2019)*
• Concurrent TESL/Applied Linguistics MA Concurrent Degree with BA in Linguistics (effective Spring 2023)*

• MFA Guidelines for Completion of Engl 5600
• MFA Environmental Field Experience (Engl 5600) Proposal Form
• MFA Environmental Courses Outside English Petition
• List of Suggested Environmental Courses Outside English
• MFA Thesis FAQs
• MFA Thesis Embargo Form
• PhD ALT Annual Review
• PhD RPC Annual Review

• Professional Advancement Grant (PAG) Application
• Professional Travel Funding Application, English Dept

• Application for Graduation System (online via AccessPlus under Graduate Student Status menu)
• Graduation Deadlines Chart for 2022-23
• Graduation Checklist
• Final Oral Examination Request (online initiated by the student via a link from the Graduate College Forms website)
• Committee Member Substitution for Final Oral Examination
• Conditions Met Memo for Final Oral Examination
• Grade Report Form (to change grades, resolve incompletes, etc.; now online in your AccessPlus account under Faculty/Advisor tab)
• Report of Final Oral Examination (Major Professor receives email with link to online Graduate College form for their specific student)
• Graduation Exit Information and Survey Form for Department of English
• Graduate Student Approval Form (now online initiated by the major professor via a link provided after examination results are reported, or by the student via a link from the Graduate College Forms website)

• Online Certificate Program of Study (POS)
• Certificate Completion Form
• Request to Pursue a Certificate in Addition to a Graduate Degree

• Graduate Co-Major Request (English Dept Graduate Programs)
• Graduate Minor Request (English Dept Graduate Programs)
• Graduate College student request form
• Schedule Change Form (Add/Drop Form) is now online in student and faculty AccessPlus accounts on the Student Tab or Faculty/Advisor tab and under Registrar Forms. This is initiated by the student and routed electronically for instructor and program advisor/major professor approval before being submitted to the Registrar’s Office.