• The Student shall prepare the proposal in written form. The Proposal should be of sufficient length to allow the Graduate Program Committee to understand the rationale for the study, the hypothesis and the approach. There should be enough details to evaluate the approach, the feasibility and a time-frame for the experiments.
• The Student should make up a notice stating the date, time and place of the Thesis Proposal and this notice MUST be sent to the General Office AT LEAST two weeks prior to the planned date of the presentation.
• The General Office will arrange for a member of the Graduate Program Committee to act as Chairperson of the Thesis Proposal.
• The Student must confirm with the General Office that the date has been confirmed with a Chairperson.
  

Please note that if the time frame outlined above is not met, the Candidacy Exam may have to be re-scheduled!

• The Student will present the proposal publically and defend it before both faculty and students. Thirty minutes will be allowed for the presentation, and about one hour for questioning.
• Immediately following its deliberations, the Examining Committee shall advise the student of its finding. The Examining committee may either
  
  1. approve the proposal essentially as presented, or
  2. request a subsequent meeting if major revisions or additional work is required before the proposal can be approved.