Friday, October 11, 2024 is the last day to route the Preliminary Approval of Dissertation and Request for Oral Defense to the Graduate Program Director. As a reminder, Preliminary Approval of Dissertation and Request for Oral Defense forms should be routed to GPD 5 weeks before the defense date. For questions, please email dgoldfar@fiu.edu and psygrad@fiu.edu 

The Preliminary Approval of Dissertation and Request for Oral Defense and required paperwork can be found at Online Dissertation Milestones - University Graduate School

Required paperwork includes:

Written dissertation must conform to the standards of presentations as described in the University Graduate School manual for Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A PDF copy of the Dissertation Defense Announcement in standard UGS format.(Please indicate both physical and zoom location on announcement).

The full iThenticate Report provided by your major professor is required. Should portions of your dissertation already be published, your major professor must also provide a memo stating the chapters that are published and the citations of the published work. See details in the form instructions, part 3. Please refer to the Research Integrity section of our website at https://gradschool.fiu.edu/rcr/.