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Revision as of 20:48, 12 July 2014

EEB XXX: [Course number TBD] NEW COURSE - IN DEVELOPMENT FOR FALL 2014

This 1 credit seminar course is intended to provide orientation information to incoming EEB graduate students; we strongly advise new students to take it. The course will meet for about an hour a week, with different faculty talking about different

Meeting time: TBD, possibly Tuesdays 4-5

Location: TBD

Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick

Tentative syllabus (subject to change)

Date Presenters Topic Notes
University/department structure; Degree ontogenies
Strategies for different career paths
What is a dissertation/thesis
Formulating good scientific questions
Research ethics and compliance
How does research funding work
How to fund your graduate work
Communicating your work: how does publishing work
Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking
Communicating your work: web sites & social media
Broader impacts and communication outside academia
Teaching (how TA assignments work, etc.)
Work-life balance
Panel discussion What I wish I’d done differently with senior grads/postdocs