Recently, I have been reflecting on the state of health and social science in the US. How competitive is it to get an NIH grant? The number of submissions to the National Institutes of Health has grown continually over the past 20+ years; in 2018, NIH received more than 55,000 grant applications, of which aboutContinue reading “Health and Social Science for All”
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A Graduate Family Course Syllabus
I have been revising my Theoretical Perspectives on the Family syllabus (see the final product here). [Check out this post for tips on how to design your own interdisciplinary graduate seminars] In a given week, I only want to assign about four readings. But, given that I have to cover theory and substantive topics eachContinue reading “A Graduate Family Course Syllabus”
Information to Promote Grad Student Success
Last week I posed the question “What information, tools, tasks, and activities could we provide to promote our graduate students’ learning, intellectual development, and achievement of their post-graduate school goals?” So, let’s start with the first part of that question – what information could we provide to promote our graduate students’ learning, intellectual development, andContinue reading “Information to Promote Grad Student Success”
Designing an (Interdisciplinary) Graduate Seminar: The Crowd-Sourced Syllabus
Designing syllabi for graduate courses is a lot of work, particularly when they are seminars, and particularly when you are in an interdisciplinary program. In an interdisciplinary program, you might want to teach a seminar on a topic, say intimate relationships, but may only know the research in the discipline (e.g. clinical psychology) you wereContinue reading “Designing an (Interdisciplinary) Graduate Seminar: The Crowd-Sourced Syllabus”
Claire Kamp Dush 