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Requirements for the Ph.D.

 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS [1]

  • Enrollment
  • Academic Residence

THE COURSE OF STUDY [2]

1.  First Year  [3]

  • Advisory Committee
  • Planning Theory and History Requirement (222A, B, C)
  • Quantitative Analysis:  UP 220B or equivalent
  • Research Methods
  • Outside Field
  • Research Design
  • Plan of Study
  • Major Fields in Urban Planning

2.  Second Year:  Major Field Examination [4]

  • Advisory Committee Meeting
  • Preparation of Exam
  • Format of Exam
  • Timing of Exam
  • The Written Exam
  • The Oral Exam

3.  Third Year:   Oral Qualifying Exam/Advancement to Candidacy [5]

  • 208C Advanced Research Design
  • Oral Qualifying Exam
  • Advancement to Candidacy

4.  Fourth and Fifth Years:  Dissertation/Final Oral Examination [6]

  • Dissertation
  • Final Oral Examination

GENERAL INFORMATION [7]

  • Registration/Leaves of Absence
  • Incomplete Grades
  • Scholastic Requirements
  • Probationary Status
  • Termination
  • Student Initiated Courses

APPENDICES

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[1] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/general-requirements-0
[2] http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=up&s=students&f=PHDFirstYear.cfm
[3] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/phd-first-year
[4] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/phd-second-year
[5] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/phd-third-year
[6] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/phd-fourth-and-fifth-years
[7] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/phd-general-information
[8] http://164.67.121.27/files/UP/PhD Appendix 1.pdf
[9] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/governance-working-groups
[10] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/research-methods
[11] http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/content/why-plan-study
[12] http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gasaa/library/docreconst.pdf
[13] http://164.67.121.27/files/UP/PhDForm3.pdf
[14] http://164.67.121.27/files/UP/PhDForm4.pdf
[15] http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gasaa/library/docnomin.pdf
[16] http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gasaa/etd/index.html
[17] http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gasaa/etd/filingfee.htm
[18] http://164.67.121.27/files/UP/Conf%20Travel%20Application%20form.pdf
[19] http://luskin.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/header-images/DSCF0239.jpg