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Advancement to Candidacy Forms

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Form List
Field of Study Forms
Agricultural Science (formerly Animal Science)

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Applied Behavior Analysis

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Art

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Athletic Training (2024-25 and 2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Biology

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Biotechnology

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Business Administration

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Chemistry

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Civil Engineering

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Civil Engineering-- Water Resources and Environmental Engineering option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (2021-22) | (2020-21) | (2019-20) | (2018-19)
Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling - Clinical Mental Health Option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23)
Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling - Clinical Rehab Option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23)
Communication

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Communicative Disorders--Deaf Education option (2020-21) | (2019-20) | (2018-19)
Computer Science

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) |(2021-22) | (2020-21)
Construction Management

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Counseling--School Counseling option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Counseling--Student Affairs and College Counseling option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Creative Writing

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Creative Writing -- Publishing and Editing Emphasis

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Criminology

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)

Deaf Education

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22)
Early Childhood Education

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) 
Education--Counseling and Student Services (2018-19)  
Education--Curriculum and Instruction option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Education--Early Childhood Education option (2020-21) | (2019-20) | (2018-19)
Education--Educational Leadership and Administration option (2019-20) | (2018-19)
Education--Multilingual and Multicultural Education option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Education--Reading/Language Arts option

(2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Educational Leadership and Administration

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) |  (2021-22)
Engineering--Computer Engineering option (2020-21) |(2019-20) | (2018-19)
Engineering--Electrical Engineering option (2020-21) |(2019-20) | (2018-19)
Engineering--Mechanical Engineering option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
English--Literature option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
English--Rhetoric and Writing Studies

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Exercise Science (2024-25)
Food and Nutritional Sciences

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Geology

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Higher Education Administration and Leadership

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
History--Traditional track (no option)

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21) 

History--Teaching option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Industrial Technology

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Interdisciplinary Studies--MA (current)
Interdisciplinary Studies--MS (current)
Kinesiology

(2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21) | (2019-20)
Kinesiology--Exercise Science option

(2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21) | (2019-20)
Kinesiology--Sport Administration option

(2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21) | (2019-20)
Kinesiology--Sport Psychology option

(2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21) | (2019-20)
Linguistics

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Linguistics--TESOL/SLAT option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21) | (2019-20)
Mathematics, M.S.

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Music--Music Education option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Music--Performance option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Nursing-- Nurse Practitioner/Primary Care/Family option

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Physics

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Plant Science

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Psychology--MA

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Public Administration

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Public Health--Health Promotion option (2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Reading (2024-25)
School Psychology--EdS

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Social Work

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Spanish

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Special Education

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Speech Language Pathology

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Sport Administration (2024-25)
Sport and Performance Psychology (2024-25)
Teaching

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Viticulture and Enology

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)
Water Resource Management

(2024-25) | (2023-24) | (2022-23) | (2021-22) | (2020-21)