Pro-Sem
First Year Proseminar: Spring 2010
Here is the list of topics we identified at our first meeting. They are ordered to represent what I thought would be a good discussion and focus “flow.” The plan is to be somewhat fluid in how we address each topic per its order so adjustments may be made to accommodate our time needs for each topic.
Week Date Topic Speaker
| 2 | 2/2 |
Organization |
|
| 3 | 2/9 |
Time Use/ Narrowing Focus |
|
| 4 | 2/16 |
Research Critique |
DLV |
| 5 | 2/23 |
Mentoring: Interviewing a faculty member (not your advisor) in lieu of class |
|
| 6 | 3/2 |
Academic Writing, Part 1 |
DLV |
| 7 | 3/9 |
Doc Exam Preparation and Perspectives
|
Second years Dr. Saltzstein |
| 8 | 3/19 |
Faculty Briefing Note this is a Friday, 10 – 11:30 |
Dr. Hart |
| 9 | 3/23 |
Mentoring
|
|
| 3/30 |
Spring Break
|
TBA |
|
| 10 | 4/6 |
Funding Research Projects
|
Dr. Stetsenko Dr. Peter Vietze |
| 11 | 4/13 |
Writing and Submitting IRBs
|
TBA & DLV |
| 12 | 4/20 | Work on Research Planning | DLV & TBA |
| 13 |
Working Outside of Academic Settings |
TBA |
Note: Attendance and active participation in discussions and hand-on activities is a requirement of this course. If a student misses a class meeting it is expected that they will let the faculty teaching “prosem” know of this absence and work with the instructor and his or her advisor to cover the topic of the missed session.
