Departmental degree requirements

Required

Minor course work
(Two or three courses in another field that best represents that discipline.  Each academic unit will develop a list.)

Required

Committee requirements

Committee must include a member from outside your discipline: life, earth or social sciences.

Dissertation requirements

Dissertation must include an explicitly collaborative component.

Annual review (March)

Required

Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project activities: All Scientist Meetings and Annual Poster Symposium

Required

Distinguished Visitor Series (Assist with recruitment of speakers and hosting.)

Required to attend one per semester. 

Urban Ecology Reading Group (1 credit hour in Fall)

Required during funded years; expected during unfunded years; and excused after five years if not finished.

Urban Ecology course (3 credit hours)

Required

Ethics and Professional Conduct Courses (1 course from Track A and 1 course from Track B)

Required

Intellectual Issues course ( 2 credit hours)

Required

Mentoring Seminar (1 credit hour)

Required

Spring Brownbag Series (Topics to be decided.)

Required

Internships with community partners

Optional

NSF online survey due mid-late April

Required

International exchange

Optional