DEDU 670 Dissertation Seminar
The seminar is designed to assist students in the preparation of their dissertation project proposal. Classes will include presentation and discussion of students' work-in-progress. The course will move back and forth between theoretical considerations and practical ones and we will cover such topics as problems and pitfalls of selecting topics, criteria of acceptability, literature reviews, developing a theoretical framework, selection of methodology, methodological issues prominent within the major topics of the students' different disciplinary fields, issues relevant to data analysis, selection of a dissertation committee, developing a timetable for the completion of the dissertation project as well as procedures for insuring the protection of human subjects.
Prerequisite
None