Academic and Professional Skills

This seminar offers pre-professional training on topics of interest to Ph.D. students who will be pursuing academic or non-academic careers. Through experiential learning, guided workshops and goal-setting techniques, the seminar will provide (1) support in fulfilling dissertation requirements in a timely manner, (2) skills and tools for getting most out of their time as doctoral students, (3) guidance for building a competitive job market profile, and (4) resilience-building, stress management and self-leadership skills for mastering the doctoral program and their professional future. In addition, this seminar will help build cohort relationships and develop students’ abilities to collaborate with other scholars.

This seminar offers pre-professional training on topics of interest to Ph.D. students who will be pursuing academic or non-academic careers. Through experiential learning, guided workshops and goal-setting techniques, the seminar will provide (1) support in fulfilling dissertation requirements in a timely manner, (2) skills and tools for getting most out of their time as doctoral students, (3) guidance for building a competitive job market profile, and (4) resilience-building, stress management and self-leadership skills for mastering the doctoral program and their professional future. In addition, this seminar will help build cohort relationships and develop students’ abilities to collaborate with other scholars.

In presence

Lectures, class discussions, workshops.

Students will collect each sessions’ handouts and worksheets in a course portfolio. Each seminar will contain workshop elements/assignments that will also be added to this folder (e.g., research philosophy statement, elevator pitch, job talk assessments, etc.). In addition, students will create dissertation goals and action steps for themselves, write about their progress in their portfolios, and discuss their progress and challenges at each course session. The final portfolio will be turned in at the end of the course as the completion requirement.