Selected Thursdays 4:30-6:30 p.m. videoconferenced course

Adobe Connect: http://connect.odu.edu/dissertationseminar/

Spring 2010

ON-AIR Meetings: January 14, 28, February 11, 25; March 4; April 1, 22

Course Description: This course is offered in an intensive seminar format designed to assist students in making substantive progress toward identifying, refining a dissertation topic, and preparing a research proposal. The seminar will meet in an interactive videoconferencing format, with a combination of video-conferenced class seminars and online meetings. These intensive seminars will require significant preparation and active involvement. Students will be expected to make oral and written presentations of their work and to critique the work of students in the class. Preparation, support materials, and feedback will be supported through Blackboard.

Course Purpose: The purpose of this course is to assist students in the development of a prospectus to be used to identify a dissertation committee. Sufficient progress toward that goal is the expectation of the course. It must be recognized, however, that approval of the proposal for the dissertation topic rests with the student's dissertation committee, not with the successful completion of this course. Class activities will be structured around navigating the dissertation process and developing a high quality research prospectus.