Graduate Student Handbook
This page provides links to key information that you will need as you progress through your degree experience. You will find regulations for both Masters and Doctoral programs below. For PhD students, there is information on your First Meeting and Qualifying Exam - essential steps as you develop your proposal and undertake your research program. Links to important information on central services, graduate degree level expectations, and developing relations with your supervisor are also included.
Open TA positions will be posted on our homepage in the Positions Available in the Department block.
USEFUL DOCUMENTS:
Admissions and Registration Forms:
- Admissions and Registration: Forms for Students Requiring Faculty Signature or Approval - SGS (such as Part Time On or Off Campus, Full Time Off Campus, Maternity/Parental Leave, Time Limit Extension)
- Academic Change Form - SGS
- Geography - Individual Program of Study Form (pdf, 189kB)
- Geography - Permission to take a course outside of the Department (pdf, 25kB)
Awards and Financial Assistance Forms:
- Conference Travel Award Application Form (Word, 34kB)
- Conference Travel Award Claim Form (Word, 34kB)
- Awards and Financial Assistance: Forms for Students Requiring Faculty Signature of Approval - SGS (such as NSERC, SSHRC, OSOTF I, OSOTF II, OGS Acceptance Form, CGS-M Acceptance Form)
Geography Program of Study Information:
- Annual Report Form (pdf, 2.0MB) DOWNLOAD FILE, THEN OPEN FILE IN ADOBE ACROBAT, AND SAVE FILE IN ADOBE ACROBAT.
- Combined Degree Program (BAH/MA; BSCH/MSC)
- Graduate Career Map - MA and MSC
- Graduate Career Map - PhD
- Graduate Degree Level Expectations (GDLEs) (pdf, 382kB)
- MA/MSc Regulations (pdf, 151kB)
- PhD Regulations for students who started the program pre-Fall 2021 (pdf, 146kB)
- PhD Regulations for students who started the program post-Fall 2021 (pdf, 312kB)
- GPHY GSC's TA Evaluation Form Instructions (pdf, 94kB)
Oral Examination and Thesis Forms
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Oral Examination and Thesis: Forms for Students - SGS (such as Permission of Co-Authors, Thesis Submission Form, PhD Oral Exam Form)
General Graduate Student Information and Resources:
- Calendar, Policies, Procedures & Guidelines - SGS
- Expanding Horizons Academic and Professional Development - SGS
- General Form of Thesis - SGS
- Graduate Students Expressing Concern Regarding Harrassment by Faculty or Staff
- Guide to Graduate Supervision - SGS
- Habitat - Resources for living well - SGS
- MyGradSkills - Professional skills training Login with your Queen's netid