Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week1
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Agenda
Introductions (2 min per person)
Please share:
- Preferred name(s) and pronouns.
- Something meaningful/important to you or about you (not research and not obvious).
Very brief course introduction (~15 min)
- Learning goals
- Structure
- Assignments
- Weekly readings, writing/activities, discussion provocations
- Final project
- A syllabus on a wiki?
- A note about interdisciplinarity and this class
- A note about reading (as a researcher)
Stretch break #1 (quick!)
Get up! Move around!
Discussion (~30 min)
What is a doctoral program (or a university for that matter) for and what do I do with it?
- Think/Pair/Share (T/P/S): What purposes does a doctoral program serve? (consider Cottom interview, everything else you've encountered up to today).
Stretch break #2 (until guests arrive)
Guests
Claudio Benzecry and Nick Diakopoulos
