Registration
requirements for Ph.D. students are relatively informal. Each student
during their first year in the program must see an academic advisor during
the Tele-BEARS period each semester to work out a schedule that best suits
the student's individual needs. There is flexibility in the choice of
courses that a student may take, particularly after the first year. See
suggested course sequences for first year students in various sub-disciplines
of chemistry below. In addition to lecture courses, there are three kinds
of courses you can get course credit for. Theses are
- Seminar
(Chemistry 298- sections 1-8):
Student can register for up to 3 seminars for 1 unit only, every semester.
Enrollment in a seminar means regular attendance at (a) seminars given
by outside speakers and Berkeley faculty appropriate to a student's
area of specialization, (b) student seminars in at least one of the
two divisions of the graduate program, and (c) group seminar organized
by a student's research group. Enrollment is on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory
(S/U) basis.
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Research (Chemistry 299): Since the Ph.D. is a research degree,
each student in the Ph.D. program is expected to show progress in
research every semester. In the first semester each student should
choose a field of interest and a research director. Since new students
do not have a research director when registering for the first time,
they will normally sign up for research under the Department Chair's
name. (Chemistry 299-section 1). Once a research director has been
chosen, students should sign up for research units under their research
advisor.
Research is always variable in the number of units, ranging from 1-9
and must be taken for a letter grade.
A student's load of formal classes and seminars will determine the
number of research units that he/she will sign up for each semester,
i.e., sign up for formal classes and seminars, then fill up your schedule
with as many Chemistry 299 units are you need to bring your schedule
up to 12 units. All students are required to carry a total of 12 units
each semester, while in the program.
- Teaching
(Chemistry 300): Students enroll for 2 units of Chemistry 300
during the semesters in which they serve as teaching assistants. Student
must enroll for a letter grade in the Chemistry 300 section for the
course they are teaching.
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