EEB graduate student orientation seminar

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