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Professional Seminar: Valuing A One-Credit Course Through The Lens Of Doctoral Students, Naina A. Bhandari Ph.D., Beth L. Macdonald Ph.D., Jenny M. Martin Ph.D., Amanda M. Biviano, Jamie M. Simmons, Windi D. Turner Ph.D., Susan Asselin Ph.D.
Professional Seminar: Valuing A One-Credit Course Through The Lens Of Doctoral Students, Naina A. Bhandari Ph.D., Beth L. Macdonald Ph.D., Jenny M. Martin Ph.D., Amanda M. Biviano, Jamie M. Simmons, Windi D. Turner Ph.D., Susan Asselin Ph.D.
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Professional seminar for doctoral students at a Research I University is a 1-credit course, 2 below the conventional courses. However, the course content covers at least 3 years’ worth of experiences, knowledge, and processes compressed into a single school year. The course typically extends over 16 weeks and 24 actual contact hours with 1 professor to 7 students on average. Assignments expose students to professional jobs in academia, resources available on campus, grant writing procedures, and facilitate the trajectory and purpose of the doctoral process. The purpose of this study is to investigate doctoral students’ narratives on the value they …