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Set up a meeting and consult with your Program Area Advisor before you begin the submission process. (If you aren’t sure which faculty member is serving in that capacity, please see here for a list of Program Area Advisors for the current academic year: https://wikisutexas.utexasatlassian.edunet/wiki/display/CGSR/Doctoral+Checklist). Note the Program Area Advisor may not be the same person as your course advisor. You may invite your Course Advisor from Step 1 if you would like and if faculty have availability. In your conversation, decide on which courses are most appropriate to request for use on your PhD Program of Work (POW).
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Step 4: Post-submission & Approvals
DocuSign will DocuSign will automatically forward the form to your Graduate Coordinator. They will have an opportunity to ensure that the information was submitted correctly. The form will then be sent to your Program Area Advisor for their eSignature. Program Area Advisors will receive an email from "Jeffrey Grimes via an email from the Graduate Coordinator "via DocuSign" (dse@docusign.net) confirming your request to transfer courses. Your Program Area Adviser will not approve your DocuSign request without a prior conversation (see Step 1). The GSC (Graduate Studies Committee) Chair will be the last one to eSign. The GSC chair will give the final approval to all master’s to PhD course transfer requests.
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