This workshop will describe the hiring practices of institutions within the social sciences and humanities including the criteria for selecting candidates, planning for the job market, and the importance of networking.
This workshop will describe the hiring practices of institutions within the sciences including the criteria for selecting candidates, planning for the job market, and the importance of networking.
Beginning with a workshop on how to write a dissertation, how to think of a dissertation, this track aims at supporting those students who are writing their dissertation via regular meetings. Dissertation writing is one of the most stressful times of graduate school and one may find him or herself loosing track of time and objectives as well as confidence. The Dissertation track series will help those students who are in the process of writing their dissertation to be capable of coping with general problems that may appear during their writing and research processes. It will also help them keep their aims and objectives clear and reasonable and use their time effectively. Another aim of this track is provide emotional support and feedback from peers.
As a sequel to Series I, this track will continue to support students who are interested in publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals, and completing book reviews. The format and the time table of the track are as follows:
At the beginning of the second semester, first semester groups will again meet to go over the projects that they have explored during the Fall 2011 semester. If they are not done with their journal list, they will continue exploring the journals. If they are done with the journal list, then they will each come up with a article topic that they will work on throughout the semester. The objective is to have a draft of the article to be reviewed by the group members. Once the student receives the feedback from the group members, he or she will send the article out for publication to one of the journals that was explored during the first semester.
Meeting times vary.
This workshop will explain how to write an effective syllabus for an undergraduate survey class. The importance of syllabus will be explained as well as some of the main sections of the syllabus. The workshop will also talk about how to plan material for an undergraduate class.
Some of the topics that will be covered in this workshop are:
This workshop is about how to create an ambient, successful and effective atmosphere in the classroom. What are some methods to keep student’s attention intact? What are the different techniques for different class difficulties? How to use multimedia technology in classroom? What are the types of assignments and tests that one can use to develop a better learning process?
This workshop will refer to the different settings for teaching in higher education. What is the difference between teaching in a four year institution vs a two year community college? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? What are the career opportunities in each one?
