FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS:

Deadline for fall admission with consideration for TA position/Depart. financial aid: April 15.
The History Graduate Committee begins looking at applications on March 1 (or before if possible). Applicants should have ALL their material in to the UNCW Graduate School by February 15 as it takes two weeks or more to process them. The Graduate School does not send an application to the History Graduate Committee until the application is complete. So applicants should stay on top of their application and ensure that ALL transcripts, scores, letters of recommendations and such have been sent in to the UNCW Graduate School (NOT the History Department) by Feb. 15 or earlier if at all possible. Failure to have this material in on time could easily result in your application not being reviewed by the History Graduate Committee for another month or longer.

Deadline for fall admission without TA/Dept. financial aid consideration: April 15.
For those not interested in a TA position, then all applications should be completed and in to the UNCW Graduate School by April 15 as the History Graduate Committee will begin looking at these applications on May 1.

Deadline for spring admission: October 15.
Please see the above information. All applications for Spring entry should be fully completed and in to the UNCW Graduate School by Oct. 15 as they take about two weeks to process. The History Graduate Committee will begin looking at Spring application on November 1.

     Please note: These are hard deadlines . All required forms, scores, papers and application materials MUST be completed and in to the UNCW Graduate School by the above dates as it takes about two weeks for the UNCW Graduate Program to process fully an application. Please manage your time and the mail accordingly.

  For questions about the UNCW Graduate Program, email: gradstudies@uncw.edu; or call 910-962-3135

   Click here for a Graduate Application form.

FOR CURRENT STUDENTS:

This is information that might be useful to students currently in the History Graduate Program.

Spring 2009 Language Exam: 

      Friday, Feb 13, 2-3:30 p.m., Morton 212. Bring your dictionary

Spring 2009 Comprehensive Exams (Comps):

      Tuesday, Apr. 28 (Reading Day), S&B 221 (computer lab), 9 - 1:30 p.m.

Spring 2009 Oral Defenses:

     TBA as students contact me. April 10 is last day defenses can take place. This is a hard deadline.

Thesis Deadlines:

    Note: You should have a completed rough draft to your Thesis Committee members by the first day of the semester you plan to graduate. So for this Spring, your committee members should have a rough draft by early January.

Jan 5-Mar 9 – Work with thesis directors on completing thesis

Mar 6 – Last day to submit completed draft to your ALL members of your thesis committee

Mar 20 – Draft returned to student for correction

Mar 27 – Revised completed electronic thesis draft to Graduate School (hollandn@uncw.edu) w/Format                  Approval Sheet. Get draft to thesis committee members, too. With “format approval sheet.” Return completed draft to all committee members for their approval before submitting to graduate school.  Graduate school will assess format and suitability of manuscript for defense.

May 5 - Final day to conduct defense. This is a hard deadline. No exceptions. You miss it, you                graduate next semester.  *Don’t forget Easter Holidays!

May 6 - Final PDF/ETD Thesis copy to Graduate School (hollandn@uncw.edu) Also a hard deadline.