Certificate Requirements
IBG students are required to conduct their doctoral dissertation research on topics of direct relevance to animal or human behavioral genetics, under the supervision of an IBG faculty member. A training file for each student is maintained in the IBG office for tracking progress toward completion of program requirements. Each student is to assist in updating this file at least once per year.
Specific Departmental and Graduate School requirements in addition to those listed here are the responsibility of each student, in consultation with his/her advisory committee
Teaching requirements
Each of the students in the IBG Training Program must TA for one semester in a course judged by their advisory committee to be relevant to their professional specialty. (As part of their general responsibilities for the development of the student, advisory committees may sometimes require additional teaching.)
Examinations
Each student in the training program is examined at least annually by an advisory committee. Examination results are to be incorporated into the student's training file by the Chairperson of each advisory committee. Other examinations are conducted in accordance with the requirements of each student's Ph.D. program.
Petitions
Deviations from these requirements may be requested by petition to the student's advisory committee. Specific requests for course substitution, resolution of an ambiguity, etc., should be made by written petition. A petition may be approved by a majority vote of both the advisory committee and the IBG Training Committee. Disapproval of a petition may be changed to approval by a majority vote of the IBG faculty.