Graduate Study For The Twenty-first Century: How To Build An Academic Career In The Humanities Graduate Study For The 21st Century Ebrary

Many Graduate Students Continue To Be Regarded As Apprentices Despite The Fact That They Are Expected To Design And Teach Their Own Classes, Serve On University Committees, And Conference And Publish Regularly. The Chronicle Of Higher Education Reports That The Attrition Rate For American Ph. D. Programs Is At An All-time High, Between 40% And 50% (higher For Women And Minorities). Of Those Who Finish, Only One In Three Will Secure Tenure-track Jobs. These Statistics Highlight Waste: Of Millions Of Dollars By Universities And Of Time And Energy By Students. Rather Than Teaching Graduate Students How To Be Graduate Students, Then, The Guide Prepares Them For What They Really Seek: A Successful Academic Career. - Publisher. The Culture Of A Graduate Program -- The Structure Of A Graduate Career -- Organization And Time Management -- The Graduate Seminar -- The Seminar Paper -- Teaching -- Exams -- The Dissertation -- Attending Conferences -- Publishing -- Service And Participation -- The Job Market. Gregory M. Colón Semenza, With A Foreword By Michael Bérubé. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [307]-311) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 7 Preface......Page 9 A Note on Terminology......Page 12 Foreword......Page 13 Introduction......Page 18 1 The Culture of a Graduate Program......Page 27 2 The Structure of Your Graduate Career: An Ideal Plan......Page 48 3 Organization and Time Management......Page 63 4 The Graduate Seminar......Page 85 5 The Seminar Paper......Page 99 6 Teaching......Page 119 7 Exams......Page 152 8 The Dissertation......Page 170 9 Attending Conferences......Page 198 10 Publishing......Page 217 11 Service and Participation......Page 241 12 The Job Market......Page 258 Appendix: Professional Documents......Page 285 Notes......Page 324 B......Page 329 C......Page 330 G......Page 331 J......Page 332 O......Page 333 R......Page 334 T......Page 335 Y......Page 336 "Many graduate students continue to be regarded as "apprentices" despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the attrition rate for American Ph. D. programs is at an all-time high, between 40% and 50% (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight waste: of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career"--Provided by publisher Many graduate students continue to be regarded as 'apprentices' despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. "The Chronicle of Higher Education" reports that the attrition rate for American Ph. D. programmes is at an all-time high, between 40 per cent and 50 per cent (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight: waste of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career

Many graduate students continue to be regarded as 'apprentices' despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the attrition rate for American Ph.D. programmes is at an all-time high, between 40% and 50% (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight waste: of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career.

Many graduate students continue to be regarded as 'apprentices' despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, this guide prepares them to seek a successful academic career