Directed Special Studies

Graduate

A special course of studies with content and direction approved by the student's research advisor and supervisory committee. Although there may be no formal lecture requirements, the course will be equivalent to three one-hour lectures a week for one term. The student will be required (a) to produce a critical review which will be assessed by his or her supervisory committee; the presentation and standard of the review must be appropriate for publication in a scientific journal; (b) to spend one term working in an agreed industrial setting; the quality of work will be assessed by the supervisory committee. This work may be related to but not part of the research undertaken in CHEM-8970 or CHEM-9980. (Prerequisite: approval of the Program Committee.) (The course cannot be repeated for credit under (a) above. Under normal circumstances, M.Sc. students may take this course only once; PhD. students may register under (b) above for two terms of this industrial experience.)