A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in biomedical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in mineral engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in EAEE E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in electrical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in ELEN E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
Internship for Film Research Arts Students Only
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in mechanical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in MECE E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
In the term following the passing of comprehensive examinations, doctoral candidates must register for a total of 6 points of instruction. Supervision and consultation are provided by the faculty to doctoral candidates in the courses of their selection of the dissertation topic, carrying out the prescribed research, and writing the dissertation. Library privileges are included.
Interenship for MFA Writing Research Arts Students
During the first year of the curriculum, the required course is the first in a two-course series designed to provide the doctoral student with foundational skills and knowledge and an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of rehabilitation research to efficiently progress through the doctoral studies and develop as a scholar. Students will be introduced to the research culture during the first course to develop personal and professional skills to become independent investigator.
A critical component of embarking on a line of research is to understand the work in the field by thorough literature review and integration into the network of researchers in the area to develop collaborations and a ‘team science’ approach. The course fosters a culture (to promote intellectual curiosity, seek critical review, and embrace the iterative process as ideas take shape to frame research studies) in which taking intellectual risks and feedback are valued, encouraged, and supported as part of our collective and collaborative task.
Students will explore the arc of a research career, including the importance of posing and constructing research questions to establish aims and hypotheses that promote systematic and rigorous inquiry in theory, design, implementation, and analysis.
Topics explored include proposal writing, quantitative and qualitative study designs, preparation of study instruments and study budget, grants management, research ethics, human subjects review, data management, and the preparation of oral presentations, abstracts, posters, and manuscripts.
Climate change and environmental catastrophes are on the rise, and it has been well- documented by now that those facing the heaviest impacts have largely been communities of color and / or working class. Many of these communities are also survivors of colonialism’s deeper ongoing legacies of dispossession as well as of capitalist extraction projects; yet these same communities have long had much to teach on how to be in better relations with our planet and each other. The purpose of this seminar is to train students in how to ask critical questions when it comes to the production of knowledge or when doing science.
“Community-based research” and “co-production” are increasingly popular frameworks and methods that often struggle to address the power differentials between researchers in powerful institutions and the dispossessed communities in which they work. As such, we will interrogate these concepts while simultaneously learning from several examples of decolonial research methods.
We begin by examining the colonial foundations of the sciences, with a special focus on the geo- and climate sciences. The ideological underpinnings of these sciences assume the earth to be an inert object ripe for exploitation; this legacy of European modernity is often at odds with the worldviews of indigenous peoples and their relations with nature. We then explore several anti-colonial and critical science scholars’ works and ask: what would it mean to revisit the foundations of our disciplines with a decolonial lens? How do we know (study) and relate to a place in a non-extractive and mutually respectful way that centers local communities and indigenous knowledge and practices? We will explore this through several examples, including an in-depth dive into this seminar’s ongoing collaborative community project with The Black School, a New Orleans based community organization facing lead contamination on their land within the context of a long legacy of environmental racism.
Students taking the seminar for 3 credits and who aim to decolonize their own research will be trained in ethnographic methods by developing an anthropological lens - first through a self-ethnography workshop that focuses on the positionality and then through their own mini-ethnography projects.
Prerequisites: graduate standing. Students register in this course while preparing their M.Phil. examinations and prospectus--usually in the fall and spring of their third year.
Prerequisites: graduate standing. Students register in this course while preparing their M.Phil. examinations and prospectus--usually in the fall and spring of their third year.
This course is intended for PhD students who are engaged in relevant scholarly activities that are associated with dissertation research.