LDRS 8903 - Dissertation Literature Review

3 credits

This course introduces students to the analytical and organizational fundamentals of doctoral-level literature reviews. Based in part on each student’s particular disciplinary focus, the course prepares and equips students to identify, summarize, and evaluate seminal works in their field, categorize them by results and/or methodologies, describe trends/gaps in the field-related literature, and organize their findings according to the needs of both audience and research question. The course culminates with the “Literature Review Paper,” a draft of their dissertation chapter #2.