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Deadlines

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.

Fall 2024Spring 2025
ALT (4th sem)1st submission / January 21, 2025 (Tues due to Mon Holiday) by 11:59pm (midnight)
2nd submission / April 7, 2025 (Mon) by 11:59pm (midnight; if required)
RPC (3rd sem; 4th sem if admitted with bachelor’s degree)November 1, 2024 (Fri) by 11:59pm (midnight)March 4, 2025 (Fri) by 11:59pm (midnight)

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.

Spring 2025
ALT April 1, 2025
RPCApril 1, 2025

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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)

Graduate Program Tools and Academic Forms

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.

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.

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 Graduate POS Manual.

  • 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)