What Every Student Should know :
This is based on personal judgement, and also takes into account such factors as availability of reviews and books. This is still a work in progress, much more to come, and suggestions are welcome. The ordering is random, in particular not based on level of difficulty. I made an effort to include only subjects I consider an absolutely necessary working knowledge of an advanced student, just before graduation. In some cases courses are offered, which may sometimes make life easier, otherwise an organized journal club is an efficient way to share the load.
My view on what every student should know was also a factor in the choice of topics in the summer school series titled "Strings, Gravity and Cosmology", linked on my webpage, so you can look at the websites of these schools for topics and videos of the lectures (for the 2002 version), some of the lecture notes fromthese schools could be found by searching at spires.
Other such lists are the following: Don Marolf version, Chicago theory group,, Spires version , MIT net advance- String and SUSY entries,...
Perturbative String Theory:
That is well-covered by Polchinski and/or Green-Schwarz-Witten standard textbooks. There should be also a course offered every other year or so.
Non-Perturbative String Theory:
D-Branes:
The standard reviews are Notes on D-branes and Joe Polchinski's TASI 1996 lectures , this subject is also covered by the Polchinski's book, and by Clifford Johnson's "D-branes" book (which has a wealth of knowledge about non-perturbative string theory in general).
General Reviews:
Excellent overview was given by Ashoke Sen .
AdS/CFT:
There is a standard source here, AdS/CFT big review .
Supersymmetry:
Basics:
Wess & Bagger is the classic (the global SUSY part); a useful book which simply unpacks the first part of Wess and Bagger is the one by Muller-Kirsten & Wiedemann. There are also excellent reviews on the subject, for example Joe Lykken's TASI 1996 lectures .
Dynamics of SUSY theories:An emerging standard is Philip Argyress course , which also covers some of the basics.
See also John Terning's 2002 TASI lectures , 1995 lectures by Intrilligator and Seiberg .
SUSY phenomenology:
A Supersymmetry Primer (S. Martin) is a recent good review. It assumed some knowledge of the standard model of particle physics- a course on that topic is occasionally given, otherwise plenty of places to read about it, knowledge that will become very useful in a few years...
Genereal Relativity:
Basics:
A basic graduate course is occasionally offered, take it if you can. Otherwise the standard texts seem to be Misner, Thorne and Wheeler or Wald (for general relativists), and/or
Weinberg (for particle physicists). Recent textbooks (which seem more basic than the canonical list) are those by Sean Carroll and James Hartle.
Black Holes:
Good source is Paul Townsend's course, for black holes in string theory see Amanda Peet's TASI 1999 lectures , and Juan Maldacena's PhD Thesis .
Cosmology:
General:
General introductions, given in TASI, are Sean Carroll and Carroll and Trodden . There is a real comology course offered every year or two. For a comprehensive introduction look at Brandenberger's classic review.
For inflationary models and their relation to particle physics one can use Linde's book, or the review by Lyth and Riotto, especially in the context of supergravity and perturbative string theory. The supergravity model building is revived recently in the context of the KKLT construction , a short review of recent developements can be found here.