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Description
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Every year, the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley sponsors three or four interdisciplinary Dissertation Workshops for doctoral students from across the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools who are working on dissertations on related topics or issues in different time periods, different areas of the world (including the United States), and with diverse intellectual perspectives. These intensive three-day, off-campus workshops - in effect, intense thematic retreats - cost about $6,000 and are funded by various on-campus research units interested in encouraging research and creating collegial communities of young scholars around the workshop topics. The workshops usually include twelve students and three to five faculty. They require the students to write about and present each others projects in a critical but supportive mode, and along with the faculty, they discuss and debate the strengths and weaknesses of each others projects in considerable detail. Almost invariably, the workshops foster continuing thematically-focused interdisciplinary communities on the Berkeley campus. Students report they have found then enormously helpful in focusing and accelerating their proposal writing and research, and their ultimate dissertation writing as well.
For more information:
Dissertation Workshops at UC Berkeley, by David
Szanton
List of Dissertation Workshops, 1992 - 2003
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