MASTER AND DOCTORAL DEFENSE
March and October are the graduation period
in Hokkaido University. In this March, eight students from Soil Science
laboratory will be graduated, one is from Doctoral course, four are from Master
Course and the remaining is from undergraduate. On last Monday I attended
Doctoral oral defense. There was something difference in defense, the presenter
only presented 30 minutes and 20 minutes for discussion. The next ten minutes
the committee discussed and announced “It is OK” which means the presenter is
already pursued his PhD. In My country oral defense usually takes time around
two hours. It consists of close and open defense. Occasionally it becomes “the
thriller thing” for some doctor candidates.
I also attended master defense on Friday
February 7th, In Master defense time for presentation only 15
minutes and 10 minutes for discussing. The situation in Master defense is a
little bit different than PhD. All master candidates from one division (not
only our laboratory) presented in the same place and the same day.
As usual, after the presentation, a party was
arranged for celebrating the successful of their effort to pursue PhD and
Master degree. Congratulation.
Thank you for reading my posting…C..U
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