Pro-Seminar I

Catalog description

This seminar is designed to provide support for students in the process of formulating and conducting their Practice-Based Dissertation inquiry. Topics to be addressed during the seminar include the following: ongoing evaluation and assessment of action-oriented research methods, research ethics, dilemmas of working in the field, analysis, writing the dissertation, making formal presentations, and presenting and implementing research results. Students and instructors serve as a learning community, providing support, advice, and critique. Each semester, students will make a formal presentation to the class documenting the current state of their research and bringing to the class the expertise they have developed.