September
- Fall term begins
First-Year
- Advising meeting with DGS and faculty adviser
Second-Year
- Advising meeting with ADGS and 591 adviser
October
- Fall break (mid October)
- Add / drop ends for fall graduate classes (late October)
November
Second-Year
- Registration for General Examinations (mid November)
- Preferences for spring precept assignments due (late November)
December
- Fall classes end (early December)
- Registration for spring classes begins (mid December)
Third-Year
- First draft of Dissertation Prospectus due (mid-December)
January
- Fall term incomplete contracts due (early January)
- Start of spring term (late January)
March
- Draft of POL 591 paper due (early March)
- Spring break (mid March)
- Accepted students visit (mid March)
- Add / drop ends for spring classes (late March)
April
- Reenrollment forms due (mid April)
- Spring classes end (late April)
May
- Commencement Exercises (mid May)
- Preferences for Fall precept assignments due (late April)
First-Year
- Advising meeting with faculty on progress and summer plan
Second-Year
- General exams (early to mid May)
June
- First and second years submit research papers
First-Year
- POL 591 adviser due
Second-Year
- Dissertation Prospectus Committee due
Third-Year
- Final draft of Dissertation Prospectus must be approved
- Names of Dissertation Committee due
July
August
- Politics Math Camp (mid August)
- Registration for fall classes (early August)
Third-Year (Rising)
- Final draft of POL 591 paper due ( late August)