In the wake of 2020, responding to changes in the world and in academic job markets, Brandeis’s English faculty decided to change the structure and requirements of their PhD program. Among these ...

“I want to be coachable, but not a doormat.” That was a comment I heard during a recent conversation with a doctoral student who was describing an experience they had with their dissertation chair.

For sixth-year English PhD student Yi He, teaching and learning are intertwined. For her dissertation, not only is she writing a series of essays about her research topic, Puritan media; she’s also ...

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

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Are you working on online education programs at your school? Have you interacted with an online program management company as part of this work? If the answers are yes to both of these questions, I ...

A doctoral thesis should be based on extensive research in primary sources, make an original contribution to knowledge, and be presented in acceptable scholarly form. Students entering the program ...

The desire to quantify and assess our children has dominated educational thinking over the past 20 years. IQ and base line tests rank students in a hierarchy of intelligence, while public examinations ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Sociology. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. The dissertation is a report on an independent research project, ...