If you are a full time student (all RAs and TAs are full time students), your total number of credit hours during the long semesters must add up to 9 and during the summer must add up to 3. If you are an MS MSE student or a full time Ph.D. PhD student who is NOT in Ph.D. PhD candidacy and you have completed MSE 397 Seminar, then you should use MSE 397R to fill any credit hours that are needed so that you are enrolled for 9 hours total. Thus, if you are not taking any other lecture or seminar courses, you will sign up for three sections of MSE 397R in fall and spring and one section in summer. If you are taking one 3-hour lecture or seminar course, then you generally sign up for two sections of MSE 397R in fall and spring. If you are taking two 3 hours lecture or seminar courses, then you generally will sign up for one section of MSE 397R in fall and spring. There is one exception to this rule: If you are an MS student, your last semester you must take MSE 698B Thesis Writing (this is a three credit hour course) and your second to last semester you must take MSE 698A Thesis Reading (this is also a three credit hours course). These two classes are taken in place of MSE 397R in the semesters in which they are taken.
For Ph.D. PhD students who have advanced to candidacy, when you are taking less than 9 credit hours of lecture or seminar courses, you will use MSE 399W, MSE 699W, or MSE 999W to fill the remaining hours.
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