EEB graduate student orientation seminar
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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 | |
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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 | ||