Scholarly Literature Review Seminar

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In this seminar, students will work with the guidance of their dissertation in practice chair to write a scholarly literature review. This course will provide students with an opportunity to apply interdisciplinary thinking and deeply engage with the state of literature on a student's topic of interest. One of the foundational elements of scholarly research is the accurate and comprehensive compilation, synthesis, and application of relevant literature around a particular topic. Students will identify and begin to explore the contextual, conceptual, interdisciplinary, and theoretical background of the topic that is the focus of their dissertation in practice. Over the course of the seminar, students will apply scholarly searching, reading, discussion, and writing principles to develop a draft of their dissertation-in-practice literature review.