Graduate Proseminar I: Research Skills and Scholarly Practices
Cross-listed with SPAN591
Credits: Janko Ferlič, 2016
What is academia? What is research? What can I expect from a graduate program and what does a graduate program expect from me? How do I prepare a grant application, a conference paper, or a journal article? What are the next two years of my MA, or the next four years of my PhD, going to look like? The Proseminar answers these questions and many more. Meet your fellow students from the incoming graduate cohort, discover the inner mechanisms of the FHIS graduate program, learn to develop your research project and share its results, and explore different theories and ways of thinking in this fortnightly course.
The Proseminar is mandatory for PhD students as well as MA students taking the thesis-based option. MA students who haven’t decided between the thesis-based and course-based options are strongly advised to follow the Proseminar.
The Proseminar spans two courses: Proseminar I (FREN/SPAN 591) in Winter Term 1 and Proseminar II (FREN/SPAN 592) in Winter Term 2. The two courses must be attended in order. Students who begin their program in September must enrol in Proseminar I immediately; students who begin their program in January must wait until the following September to enrol and cannot take Proseminar II before Proseminar I.
Language of instruction: English
Instructor: Dr. Patrick Moran
The grading breakdown typically includes fortnightly assignments (approx. 40-50%), a short end-of-term paper in Term 1 (approx. 20%), a longer end-of-term work in Term 2 (approx. 30%) and active participation in both terms (approx. 30%).
Coming soon!