Second Year Seminar

Catalog description

The goal of this course is divided into two main components: First, it provides a setting in which second year PhD students in Linguistics will develop the skills that are essential to communicating and advancing their research; and second, it provides professional support in a number of areas, including (but not limited to) abstract writing, preparing papers for publication, dealing with reviews, and related topics. At the beginning of each semester, the students will determine which of their research projects will be central to the seminar; this is the one that they will regularly present on during course meetings. One possibility is that students will be simultaneously enrolled in an independent study for their project, but that is by no means necessary. The course will be flexible enough so that students can have certain days devoted to the specific professional activities that they are engaged in. For example, we might spend part of a session providing feedback on an abstract that one of the participants is preparing to submit. The small size of the course will ensure that specific occasions like this can be addressed in course meetings throughout the course of the year.