Deadlines and Forms

All graduate students are to submit their Degree Planning Sheet (DPS) and any other required POS related forms, at the same time as submitting the Graduate Committee Membership and Academic Plan (two separate requests in Workday) according to the following English Department graduate program deadlines:

October 1, 2024—Fall 2024
February 24, 2025—Spring 2025

• 2nd semester of coursework for MA program graduate students
• 4th semester of coursework for MFA program graduate students
• 5th semester of coursework for PhD program graduate students
  (do not count summer semesters)

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 current academic year, you do not have to reapply.)

Deadline—January 15, 2025

Downloadable PDF document of application requirements in links to online submissions

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 using the Annual Review document below by the following deadlines according to the procedures downloadable below.

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ALT Examinations Committee 2024-25

Gulbahar Beckett (bbeckett@iastate.edu) (Chair)
Gary Ockey (gockey@iastate.edu)
Evgeny Chukharev (evgeny@iastate.edu)

RPC Examinations Committee 2024-25

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

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 is a form developed by the Graduate Studies Office of the English Department intended to help students plan how they will meet their major’s academic requirements. It also serves as a useful tool to help students complete the online Graduate Committee Membership and Academic Plan in Workday. Students will work on this form in consultation with their program advisor/major professor. Once it is complete, and by the designated deadline above for your program, you must submit this form electronically to the Graduate Program Office (englgrad@iastate.edu) when you have completed the Committee Membership and Academic Plan in Workday.

If changes were made to academic requirements for your major after your entry in the program, you can choose to follow the requirements in place when you began the program or you can choose to follow the new requirements. That is why there may be more than one version of your major’s DPS below.

• Applied Linguistics and Technology PhD (effective Fall 2024)
• Applied Linguistics and Technology PhD (effective Spring 2023)
• Applied Linguistics and Technology PhD (effective Fall 2019)
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• Creative Writing & Environment MFA (effective Fall 2024)
• Creative Writing & Environment MFA (effective Spring 2023)
• Creative Writing & Environment MFA (prior to Spring 2023)
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• English MA (effective Fall 2024)
• English MA (effective Fall 2023)
• English MA (prior to Fall 2023)
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• Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication MA (effective Fall 2024)
• Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication MA (effective Spring 2023)
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• Rhetoric and Professional Communication PhD (effective Fall 2024)
• 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)
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• TESL/Applied Linguistics MA (effective Fall 2024)
• TESL/Applied Linguistics MA (effective Fall 2019)
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For the concurrent graduate and undergraduate program major’s below, use the current graduate major DPS above and follow instructions found in that program’s section of the English Department Graduate Program Handbook.

• Concurrent RCPC MA Degree with BS in Technical Communication (effective Spring 2023)
• Concurrent TESL/Applied Linguistics MA Degree with BA in Linguistics (effective Fall 2024)

• Graduate Committee Membership (complete in Workday)
• Graduate Academic Plan (complete in Workday)
• Language Requirement Form
• Prerequisite Equivalency Petition
• POS Waiver/Substitution Petition
• Transfer Credit Petition
• Expired Course Petition (complete in Workday after submitting your Graduate Committee Membership and Academic Plan)
• Engl 5900: Special Topics (Independent Study) Request Form

• 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
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• PhD ALT Annual Review
• PhD RPC Annual Review
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• PhD Portfolio Assessment Student ID Memo
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• RPC Preliminary Written Exam Reading List Approval Memo
• RPC Preliminary Written Examination (exam document template for Major Professor)
• Preliminary Oral Examination Request (Workday, Request a Graduate Oral Exam instructions)
• Committee Member Substitution for Preliminary Oral Examination (Workday, Submit Your Graduate Committee Membership instructions)
• Preliminary Oral Examination Results Report (Workday, Submit Oral Exam Results instructions)
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• Online Certificate Program of Study (POS)
• Certificate Completion Form
• Request to Pursue a Certificate in Addition to a Graduate Degree
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• Graduate Co-Major Request (English Dept Graduate Programs)
• Graduate Minor Request (English Dept Graduate Programs)

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

• Graduate College Graduation Deadlines for 2024-25
• Application for Graduation/Program Completion (Workday, Apply for Program Completion instructions)
• Final Oral Examination Request (Workday, Request a Graduate Oral Exam instructions)
• Committee Membership Substitution for Final Oral Examination (Workday, Submit Your Graduate Committee Membership instructions)
• Final Oral Examination Results Reported (Workday, Submit Oral Exam Results instructions)
• Conditional Pass and Conditions Met for an Oral Examination (Workday, Submit Oral Exam Results instructions)
• Grade Report (to change a grade, resolve an incomplete, etc., instructor submits in Workday)
• Graduation Exit Information and Survey Form for the Department of English
• Graduate Student Approval Form (Workday, Complete the Graduate Student Approval Form)