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Revision as of 14:12, 22 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, although it is open to other students; we strongly advise new students to take it. The course will meet for about an hour a week, with 2-3 faculty present each week to discuss a given topic. This is a new course and we seek input on what topics we should include.
Meeting time: Tuesdays 3:45-5
Location: TBD
Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick
Tentative syllabus (subject to change)
| Date | Presenters | Topic | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | Kent Holsinger + ?? | What do you aim to accomplish in grad school? | Relate to strategies for different career paths; aim to have at least one person who has placed grad students in EEB positions outside academia | |
| Sept 2 | What is a dissertation/thesis | |||
| Sept 9 | Formulating good scientific questions | |||
| Sept 16 | Carl Schlichting | University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies | ||
| Sept 23 | Research ethics and compliance | NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc | ||
| Sept 30 | How does research funding work | need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources, cover OSP etc. | ||
| Oct 7 | How to fund your graduate work | maybe a panel of grads?? | ||
| Oct 14 | Mark | Communicating your work: how does publishing work | need faculty who have been editors, maybe a couple | |
| Oct 21 | Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking | Homework: get set up to edit in eebedia or Aurora | ||
| Oct 28 | Communicating your work: web sites & social media | students should leave with an eebedia or Aurora page set up | ||
| Nov 4 | Broader impacts and communication outside academia | |||
| Nov 11 | Developing as a teacher | (also discuss how TA assignments work) | ||
| Nov 18 | Work-life balance | |||
| Nov 25 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
| Dec 2 | Senior grads/postdocs | What I wish I’d known earlier/done differently | Panel discussion | |
