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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - EDG7939
Tracking Number - 2544
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Current Status:
Approved, Permanent Archive - 2011-07-17
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: to GC 5/10/11; lrning outcomes need revision; emailed 6/28/11; cleared 6/29/11; GC approved 7/5/11. To USF Syst 7/5/11; to SCNS 7/13/11. Approved eff 8/1/11
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2011-04-07
- Department: Childhood Education & Literacy Studies
- College: ED
- Budget Account Number: 172100
- Contact Person: Jolyn Blank
- Phone: 9741029
- Email: jblank@usf.edu
- Prefix: EDG
- Number: 7939
- Full Title: Advanced Graduate Seminar: Research in Progress
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: D -
Discussion (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?:
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Seminar: Research in Progress
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: EDG 7938 Advanced Graduate Seminar: Introduction to Research
- Corequisites: N/A
- Course Description: Interdisciplinary work and collaborative research will be fostered through an inquiry group. The group will work as a community of discursive social practice with the goal of more fully engaging doctoral students in the intellectual life of the discipline
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Doctoral students need support to learn how to publish research. The intensive writing experience will include one-on-one consultations and peer/participant feedback and support for setting goals, solving problems, and working efficiently as writer-researchers.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Graduate faculty in the Department of Childhood Education and Literacy Studies
- Objectives: a) Develop a presentation that reports on research in progress, identifies questions to guide feedback, and identifies a scholarly issue encountered in the work.
b) Review scholarly work in progress and provide feedback that addresses the problems identified by the presenter, demonstrates knowledge and understanding of research process, and serves to enhance the work reviewed.
c) Revise scholarly work based upon feedback received.
d) Develop collaborative research partnerships that facilitate professional development.
- Learning Outcomes: a) Develop a presentation that reports on research in progress, identifies questions to guide feedback, and identifies a scholarly issue encountered in the work.
b) Review scholarly work in progress and provide feedback that addresses the problems identified by the presenter, demonstrates knowledge and understanding of research process, and serves to enhance the work reviewed.
c) Revise scholarly work based upon feedback received.
d) Develop collaborative research partnerships that facilitate professional development.
- Major Topics: Conceptualizing Theoretical Research
Forms and Functions of Research/Scholarship
Academic Writing Strategies
Collaborative Writing Strategies
Roles and Responsibilities of Reviewers
Responding to Reviewer Feedback
Forming Research Collaborations
- Textbooks: Becker, H. S. (1998). Tricks of the trade: How to think about your research while you are doing it. Chicago: University of Chicago.
This text provides very practical strategies for conducting and writing research. The exemplars are accessible and varied.
Wolcott, H. F. (2009). Writing up qualitative research (3rd ed.). Newbury Park: Sage.
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: N/A
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Research Presentations (20%): Throughout the semester, students will provide summaries of their research work to date, set tasks for readers/reviewers, and facilitate class discussion about the nature of the work in progress, including questions about form, presentation, data analysis, etc.
Reader/Reviewer Feedback (30%): Students will respond to the research presentations by providing written and oral feedback to the authors.
Research Products (50%): Students will provide documentation of research in various forms of production and revisions based on the feedback provided during the research presentations.
Grading Criteria:
A+ = 98-100
A = 95-97
A- = 92-94
B+ = 90-91
B = 85-89
B- = 82-84
C+ = 80-81
C = 75-79
C- = 72-74
D+ = 70-71
D = 65-69
D- = 62-64
F = 61
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Research Presentations: Throughout the semester, students will provide summaries of their research work to date, set tasks for readers/reviewers, and facilitate class discussion about the nature of the work in progress, including questions about form, presentation, data analysis, etc.
Reader/Reviewer Feedback: Students will respond to the research presentations by providing written and oral feedback to the authors.
Research Products: Students will provide documentation of research in various forms of production and revisions based on the feedback provided during the research presentations.
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: “Plagiarism is defined as "literary theft" and consists of the unattributed quotation of the exact words of a published text or the unattributed borrowing of original ideas by paraphrase from a published text. On written papers for which the student employs information gathered from books, articles, or oral sources, each direct quotation, as well as ideas and facts that are not generally known to the public-at-large, must be attributed to its author by means of the
appropriate citation procedure. Citations may be made in footnotes or within the body of the text. Plagiarism also consists of passing off as one's own, segments or the total of another person's work.”
“Punishment for academic dishonesty will depend on the seriousness of the offense and may include receipt of an "F" with a numerical value of zero on the item submitted, and the "F" shall be used to determine the final course grade. It is the option of the instructor to assign the student
a grade of "F" of "FF" (the latter indicating dishonesty) in the course.”
A grade of ‘I’ will only be awarded for situations in which the student has completed the majority of the coursework and is confronted with an extenuating circumstance at the end of the semester, which significantly impacts their ability to complete assignments in a timely manner.
Each late assignment (for any reason) will lower your grade on the assignment by a letter grade for each calendar day that it is late. If you must turn in a late assignment, it will not be accepted more than one week past its original due date. Any tardy over 30 minutes is considered an absence.
- Program This Course Supports: Early Childhood Education (Ph.D.), Elementary Education, Literacy Studies
- Course Concurrence Information: PhD programs across the college of education that have doctoral students interested in a focus on Elementary Education
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.