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Description
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Graduate School of Library
and Information Science (GLSIS) has been revising its
doctoral program over a number of years. As part of this
process, the Doctoral Proseminar was developed to explore
and address some of the difficulties that new students
encounter as they struggle to adapt to Doctoral study. The
Doctoral Proseminar is a Doctoral-level course offered each
semester; and the program requires that each student
complete a minimum of two Proseminar courses.
The basic format alternates
each week between a talk followed by group discussion, and a
reading group. The talks, based on the presenters' research
projects, are given by members of GSLIS faculty, other
campus faculty, or doctoral students. (All doctoral students
are expected to attend the talks regardless of whether they
are registered for the course; and faculty are strongly
encouraged to attend.) Topics include introducing new
doctoral students to the process of doctoral study, learning
to cope with interdisciplinarity, choosing a research topic,
and helping international students adjust to a different
social and learning culture. The reading groups consist of
small group discussions and exercises based on selected core
readings. The readings introduce students to a wide range of
research practices and evolving research understanding to
supplement their hands-on experience as research assistants.
Group exercises provide graduate students with the
opportunity to share insights, explore approaches to
brainstorming, and apply the readings to new research
contexts.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~twidale/prosem/prosemideas.html
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