Current Students
Your guide to the HDFS Graduate program is your "one stop shopping". It explains all of the philosophies, operation and policies of the program and will help you navigate through your career as a graduate student.
The links below have everything you need to know about the UW Graduate School's policies and procedures, as well as information for graduate student life.
Graduate Student Website
Last year our HDFS graduate students began compiling a resource website specifically for HDFS graduate students. The site is a work in progress. Here's the link:
http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/content.php?mode=preview&pid=25875&sid=186760
Financial Aid
A number of teaching assistantships (TA’s) and project assistantships (PA’s) are available to students in the department each year. These assistantships provide tuition remission, benefits and a stipend. For a general introduction to funding and a description of a variety of funding sources, including assistantships, fellowships, scholarships, travel and research awards and more
Annual Graduate Student Merit Review Process
Information on our yearly Merit Review Process can be found in the Graduate Program Handbook (see pp. 14-18).
- Timeline for the 2008 Grad Student Merit Review
- Report Form for the 2008 Grad Student Merit Review
Degree Completion
Warrants for degree completion are ordered for you by our Dept. Admin. Each semester an email is sent to all students asking whether they plan to complete their degree during the current semester. There are deadlines for having our Dept. Admin. submit your commencement information, as well as the warrant request.
Important Forms and Documents
- MS Checklist
- PhD Checklist
- Advisor & Committee Form
- Request to add non-faculty committee member
- Course Substitution Form
- Proposal Approval Form
- Guidelines for Thesis Proposals (Qualitative)
- Guidelines for Thesis Proposals (Quantitative)
