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The Case for Interdisciplinary Training in Development Sequencing and Time to Completion |
Sequencing and Time to Completion GPD Fellows invest a significant effort in moving beyond the domain of their home disciplines to develop multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills. Fellows are required to demonstrate competence in disciplines outside their home department through successful completion of advanced graduate course work. This is, in other words, a “PhD with a difference.” At the same time, the design of GPD minimizes added time to completion. First, with fellowship support for the second or third year, GPD trainees do not work as TAs or RAs, allowing them to focus on their studies. Second, DS 201 (to be taken in the second year) is specifically geared to helping students develop a research project, providing them with a greater degree of focus, and positioning them to apply for external research grants as early as their third year of graduate training. Third, summer research money provided by GPD facilitates pre-dissertation research. Because each of the participating departments has unique requirements
for the PhD, and in particular different course requirements, training
in GPD is integrated into each program differently. A possible sequence
is summarized in the following table:
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