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The most important thing for you to do during the fourth year is to finish writing your thesis.

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• Additionally, attending Departmental Seminars and your research group seminars is expected/strongly encouraged. Seminar attendance helps develop transferable skills such as oral communication skills, presentation skills, persuading skills, analytical/logical thinking skills, critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, decision making skills, research skills.
• If you haven't already attended at the School Seminar Finishing Your PhD: Thesis, Viva, Training in year three, this is strongly encouraged. This is aimed at year three and four students but year two are also welcome. It will be presented annually. This reminds students of the expected training in years three and four; describes the University requirements and standards for a PhD and how they are examined; gives advice on writing a PhD thesis and how to prepare for a viva; and outlines the forms to be completed.
• When you have completed your primary research, normally at the end of 3 years full time study, you can transfer to submission pending status. The form is available on the PGR Forms and Procedures web page . Please check that this will not affect your funding before you do this.
• You must submit an Intent to Submit form at least two months before submission of your thesis. The form is available on the PGR Forms and Procedures web page .
• The Thesis Access Declaration and return this to the Sydney Jones Library. The form is available on the PGR Forms and Procedures web page .
• You need to submit two copies of your thesis to the Student Reception in the Foundation Building. These should be soft bound. The Student office can help you with this. This should be accompanied by a Thesis Submission Form . The form is available on the PGR Forms and Procedures web page . You should also send an electronic copy of your thesis by email to the PGR Team ([email protected]).
• In April/May you should attend the Department of Computer Science Postgraduate Workshop . This helps develop transferable skills such as communication skills, in particular listening and presentation skills, interpersonal skills, and critical thinking skills.
• In June , you will be asked to complete an Annual Progress Report (APR) via Spider/Tulip. Year four students should do this if they may need to register again in September, for example to do corrections. As a rule of thumb if you haven't yet had your viva when these are released you should complete it. Completed training picked up by the system is listed in a box on the report. Following this is a box entitled "any other training courses that are not mentioned above". If any of the expected training is missing please explain why and say when you will complete it. When you have completed this, it will be passed electronically to your supervisor, the DDPR, the PGR Team and (sometimes) the Faculty.

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If you are starting to think about your dissertation or thesis, the Library can support you with everything from refining your question to finding and using the best resources to support your work.

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Putting together a dissertation is a large project and requires careful planning. The Library’s KnowHow team run workshops and webinars to support the planning stages of your dissertation. During the sessions, you will look at the importance of refining your question, consider what should go into the different elements of a dissertation, and consider methods to manage your time throughout the process. View the KnowHow events calendar to book your place on any of the upcoming sessions.

All students are also enrolled on a KnowHow: Study for Success course in Canvas , in which you can find tutorials on ‘Refining your Question’, ‘Managing your Project’ and ‘Writing a Literature Review’, as well as several tutorials on working with statistics if your dissertation involves this.

We also offer postgraduate student-led services to support you with your dissertation. Book a one to one appointment with a Writing@Liverpool tutor for advice on writing particular aspects of your dissertation or a book a Stats@Liverpool appointment for help with working with statistics.

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The Liaison Librarian for your subject can help you with the research for your dissertation or thesis. They can advise on the best databases to search to find quality academic information, such as recently published journal articles and conference papers on your subject. There are specialist databases for many subject areas – use your Subject Library Guide to find the most appropriate database for you.

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If you are looking for primary source inspiration for your dissertation or thesis, useful overviews of all the collections held within the Library’s Special Collections and Archives are available via the Collections A-Z webpages .

The team in Special Collections and Archives can offer one-to-one support in making effective use of the service, including help to use and understand the catalogues in order to locate Special Collections and archival material. Contact the team via email for support –  [email protected] .

More information is available on the Support for Teaching and Research webpage .

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When writing up your dissertation, it is important to ensure you understand academic integrity and reference your sources correctly to avoid plagiarism. Learn more through the KnowHow Academic Integrity tutorial in Canvas .

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There is always a risk attached to including third party copyrighted material in your thesis, but in the majority of cases this risk will be very low. If using very long extracts, or significant numbers of images, maps, tables in your thesis, it is always best to ask the copyright holder for permission as soon as possible, being very specific about the use you are making of them, namely for inclusion in a PhD thesis that will be made available from the University Repository .

Failure to do so may delay your thesis from being made available in the University Repository.

Further information on copyright, including guidance on assessing levels of risk, are available in this c opyright and your thesis presentation . See also Copyright and your PhD research and thesis .

This   PDF document with guidance on depositing your thesis upon publication includes information on what to do if you have included lots of third party material

Further enquiries should be directed to the  Open Research Team .

When should I seek clearance for third party copyrighted material for my thesis?

You are strongly advised to seek clearance for third party copyrighted material at the earliest convenience, as this can be a time consuming task. Preferably, permission should be sought as you are gathering the material and writing your thesis. If you require more information, please contact the  Open Research Team .

What should I do if I realise there are intellectual property/copyright concerns after my thesis is made live?

If you unwittingly include third party copyright material and the thesis is made live before you realise this is the case, you should inform the  Open Research Team  as soon as possible.

Public access to the thesis will be restricted while we advise you on how to resolve any issues. If you are unable to obtain permission to include copyright material in the thesis then you may submit an additional abridged version of your thesis with the content removed and a text box directing people to where they can access it. You would upload this version by editing the record you initially created for the thesis in  Liverpool Elements .

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Use the instructions to deposit your thesis in the LJMU E-Theses Collection

The guidance on this page about depositing your thesis applies to all postgraduate research students (including staff) completing one of the following research degree awards:

• Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) including PhD by Published Work

The University’s Research Degree Regulations require that on successful completion of a research degree award, all candidates must lodge an electronic copy of the final, approved version of their thesis in the LJMU E-Theses Collection.  Research degree certificates will not be released until this has been done.

There are two steps to depositing your thesis in LJMU E-Thesis Collection:

• Complete the E-thesis Access Declaration and Deposit Agreement Form If you have access to eDoc, this form can be completed there, otherwise please contact: [email protected] to request the form.

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Read your Deposit Guide to find out how to deposit your thesis to LJMU E-Thesis Collection using Symplectic - LJMU's research publications system.

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By signing the E-Thesis Access Declaration and Deposit Agreement form, you agree to grant a non-exclusive licence to LJMU.  This licence sets out both yours and the University’s responsibilities.  It is required so that the University can preserve your thesis for the long term, make it available within the LJMU E-Theses Collection and so that it can be included in EThOS , the UK theses service administered by the British Library.

What if I want to restrict access to my thesis?

In the interests of scholarship, LJMU's theses are normally made freely available online in the LJMU E-Theses Collection immediately on deposit. This constitutes publication.  Occasionally, access to theses may need to be restricted and candidates should indicate on the E-Thesis Access Declaration and Deposit Agreement form if any such embargo is required.  For further information regarding restriction, please see the Restricting Access page.

What happens next if I want to restrict access to my thesis?

If you have requested that access to your thesis is restricted, this must be approved on behalf of the University's Research Degrees Committee. You will receive confirmation of approval by email.

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By Catherine Zachary

Each year, we’re astounded by the incredible work of our graduate students, who are not only students but also serve as instructors and teaching assistants. They provide so much to our musical community on a daily basis and we are so grateful!

This past academic year the 25 current graduate students presented papers, conducted research, and taught in the classroom as both TAs and lecturers. They also presented at and organized the 13th Annual UNC-KCL Graduate Student Music Conference, held at UNC on May 13 & 14! Huge thanks to UNC graduate students Melissa Camp, Tara Jordan, and Matteo Sammartano for serving on the organizing committee. This annual music conference brings together graduate students from UNC and King’s College London for two days of exciting presentations.

In May, the department was proud to celebrate six doctoral hoodings and one Master’s degree completion. Over the summer, these incredible researchers and educators will be traveling to conduct and present research across the US, the UK, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and more. They’ll be teaching summer courses at UNC and NCCU, among other institutions, and recent graduates will be preparing for new positions in their post-Carolina life.

We’re incredibly proud of each graduate student and so grateful for all they do to enhance musical learning and life at Carolina.

Danny Allen presented “A Struggle of Identity: Musicking in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during World War II” at the Yale Graduate Music Symposium in February. He also presented “The Transmission and Embodiment of Shakuhachi Technique” at the UNC-KCL Conference in May. Danny was awarded the Asian American Center Research/Travel Award for Summer 2024 and the Kenan Graduate Student Activities Fund for Summer 2024. The awards will fund his research on the Japanese American Incarceration Camps and music for his master’s thesis.

Drew Borecky   received a Mary Valentine and Andrew Cosman Research Fellowship at the Strong National Museum of Play to perform archival research for his dissertation on the intersection of Music and tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs). He will present at a conference later this summer called Generation Analog 2024.

Melissa Camp presented “Listening to Arab Modernity: Commercial Recordings from the 1932 Cairo Congress” at AMS. She also served on the organizing committee for the 13th Annual UNC-KCL Graduate Student Music Conference, held at UNC in May.

Justin Frankeny is conducting dissertation research in Miami in June and July using funds from the Society for American Music’s Cone Fellowship and the University of Miami’s Goizueta Fellowship. During the 23-24 academic year he served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History at Baldwin Wallace University, teaching 12 credits in the fall and 12 in the spring. He also presented at the fall 2023 meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society and participated in the UNC Online Course Development Support Program facilitated by Digital and Lifelong Learning for his UNC Summer School Course, MUSC 143: Intro to Rock, which is underway now! Justin has been hired to teach 3 courses in music history and music appreciation at Duquesne University this fall.

Kira Gaillard presented “The Enemy Without: Blitzstein’s Reuben Reuben, Silence, and Biopolitics” at AMS. She received a FLAS fellowship to study Arabic at the Qasid Institute in Amman, Jordan this summer. The fellowship was awarded by the Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies (CMEIS) and is funded through the US Department of Education.

ken tianyuan Ge presented “Ungrading Jazz: Listening and Writing as Decolonial Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Jazz History Survey” at AMS. This year, he traveled to South Florida, is now conducting research in the UK and Denmark through the early summer, and will continue research in the Philippines going into the fall. This spring he was the recipient of the Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship, and in June is presenting research at the International Tourism & Leisure Studies Conference in Liverpool, as well as the Royster Global ’24 Conference in London.

Joshua Harton   was elected student representative for the AMS-SE chapter alongside Destiny Meadows.

Emily Hynes completed her Ph.D. this spring with her dissertation “The Legacy of Incarceration: How Prison Music Became a Commodity in the Popular Music Industry” under the advisement of Jocelyn Neal.

Eden Jones is teaching Intro to Rock this summer at Orange Correctional Center as part of UNC’s correctional education program .

Tara Jordan served on the organizing committee for the 13th Annual UNC-KCL Graduate Student Music Conference, held at UNC in May. She also completed her Ph.D. this spring with her dissertation “‘Mi, Monastir’: Remembrance and Reconstruction of Interwar Monastir’s Jewish Musical Life” under the advisement of Michael Figueroa.

Stella Li presented “‘Listen Remember and Recreate’: Jazz 101 in Occupied Japan” at AMS. She is starting a job as Associate Editor (Japanese and Korean publications) at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) in New York City this fall.

Sarah Lindmark presented “Come Out and Dance: The Lesbian Liberation of Manhattan’s Gay Bars in the Early 1970s” at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) in April. Her presentation was part of the panel, “Cruising Utopia: Queer and Feminist Community in Popular Music,” moderated by Lauron Kehrer. She was awarded the Marcia J. Citron Graduate Research in Musicology Award, which will fund research this summer for her dissertation, “From Jukebox to DJ: Dance, Desire, Technology, and Liberation in Manhattan’s Gay Bars, 1968-1974.”

Kari Lindquist was awarded the Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship by the Society for American Music. “With the support of this fellowship, I will be able to conduct archival research at the National Archives and the Band Collections in the Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of Maryland,” wrote Kari. She also presented “Wind Bands in Cold War Diplomacy and The University of Michigan Symphony Band’s 1961 Tour” at AMS and has a book review forthcoming this June in the Music Library Association Journal, Notes . Kari will present her research at the Feminist Theory & Music Conference  in late June.

Destiny Meadows presented “Aerobic Sound, Neoliberal Bodies: Fashioning the ‘New American Person’ in the US Cultural Imaginary” at AMS. She also won two awards this Spring: The Madeleine L’Engle Travel Research Fellowship from Smith College and The Poulton Family Endowed Summer Research Fellowship from UNC. Destiny was also elected student representative for the AMS-SE chapter alongside Joshua Harton.

Briana Nave   presented “Writing About Music: Valuing Women’s Subjectivity” at the Tau Beta Sigma women in music event on March 1st. She also presented “Writing From a Body: Ellen Willis’s Pro-Sex Rock Criticism” for the Harvard University Graduate Music Forum Conference on April 12; this year the theme of the conference was music criticism. Most recently, she presented “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Musical Symbolism and Health Propaganda in Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith ” at the UNC-KCL joint conference in May.

Erin Pratt was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for this coming year, 2024-2025. She also had her paper accepted to the German Studies Association conference in Atlanta this September.

Matteo Sammartano   completed his Master’s degree with his thesis “The Night Unraveled: Nocturnal Significances in Seventeenth-Century French Court Ballets” under the advisement of Anne MacNeil. He also served on the organizing committee for the 13th Annual UNC-KCL Graduate Student Music Conference, held at UNC in May.

Sierriana Terry completed her Ph.D. this Spring with her dissertation, “Harmony & Hues: Blerd Views on the Fusion of Black Culture and Japanese Animation” under the advisement of David Garcia. Dr. Terry will teach Music History courses as an adjunct professor at North Carolina Central University for both the Summer semesters and the 2024-2025 academic year.

Kendall Winter is a 2024 recipient of UNC’s  Boka Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service . Her nominators cited her years of participation and leadership in the Graduate and Professional Student Government and her contributions to the field of musicology through her teaching and research at UNC and through her engagement in national organizations as deserving of this recognition. She presented “Hegemonic Refashioning: The 1888 Song Leaflet of the American Woman Suffrage Association” at AMS. This spring, Kendall completed her Ph.D. with the dissertation “Suffragist and Antisuffragist Songs in the United States, 1867-1920” under the advisement of Annegret Fauser. Dr. Winter looks forward to starting a new chapter as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA this fall.

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Congratulations to Lauren Kashi for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation, "Three Essentials of Private Property in Kant"! Lauren received her BA in philosophy from Arizona State University and her MA degree in philosophy from ASU as well. Lauren’s research interests are primarily social and political philosophy, metaethics, ethics, and epistemology. She is also interested in philosophy of science and applied ethics.

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Fernando Clark successfully defended his dissertation, "Are Latinx Neighborhoods So Different? A Test of Racial Invariance Thesis and Latino Paradox." This research was completed under the direction of Tom McNulty. Fernando has accepted a faculty position at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Cerenity Collins successfully defended her dissertation, "Double Consciousness, Mixed Emotions, and Social Interaction: Examining the Racialized Experiences of Black STEM Students." Dawn Robinson served as major professor throughout Cerenity's graduate studies. Cerenity has already accepted a tenure track position at Clemson University.

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Submission of official documents, such as TOEFL score and official transcripts, need to be sent to the SDSU Graduate Admissions office. Documents sent to the department via email or regular mail/delivery services will not be accepted and will be discarded.

You must complete the Cal State Apply application and provide your official test scores and transcripts to the SDSU Graduate Admissions office (follow the instructions on Graduate Steps to Apply ).

For more information on how to apply please visit the Office of Admissions - SDSU Main Campus Master's Degrees page.

Important Note:

Please DO NOT send official documents to the department. All official documents should be sent to the SDSU Graduate Admissions office.

Scholarships and Financial Support

A limited number of resident tuition waiver scholarships are available for new students. These scholarships are highly competitive. Students who want to be considered for these scholarships must submit their applications as soon as possible. Applications received after JANUARY 15th will not be considered for scholarships.

Other means of financial support are also available for our graduate students, including Teaching Assistantship and Grader positions. Most of our faculty are carrying out cutting-edge research; they hire students as Research Assistants (or provide Tuition Assistance) to work on their sponsored research projects.

For more information on financial aid and scholarships please visit the Financial Aid and Scholarships site at https://sacd.sdsu.edu/financial-aid .

Professional Career Opportunities

San Diego is home to many hi-tech companies in wireless communication and networks, VLSI, signal processing, RF/microwave and bio-technology. Many of our graduates are employed by these companies.

Graduate students have many opportunities to work as interns in these companies. The ECE Department allows graduate students in good academic standing to work as interns through the Curricular Practical Training (CPT) program.

How to Apply

You may apply to the M.S.E.E program by using the information on the Office of Admissions - SDSU Main Campus Master's Degrees page. For additional information on San Diego State University's College of Graduate Studies please see the College of Graduate Studies website.

Admission for Veterans, Service Members, and Military Families

For information on admission for veterans, service members, and military families, please click on the Joan and Art Barron Veterans Center .

For Veterans Who Are Undergraduate or Graduate Students

The Troops to Engineers program provides specialized career assistance for student veterans seeking to improve their professional development skills, obtain paid internships and secure engineering specific employment upon graduation.

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