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DESCRIPTION AND
REQUIREMENTS
CHS 286, known as the
Doctoral Roundtable, convenes five times each quarter for two hours each
session. Generally, the Roundtable meets every other week on Mondays from
4:00-6:00 PM. Fall and Spring quarters the seminar starts the FIRST week
of class. Due to several Monday holidays in the Winter, the seminar starts the
SECOND week of class in the winter only. There are also the following
exceptions for major holidays during 2008-2009 year.
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October 27 APHA Meetings
rescheduled later to
November 3
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May 25 Memorial Day Holiday rescheduled earlier to May
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Purpose:
The Doctoral Roundtable has two major objectives. First, to help you expand
your horizons as a public health professional and develop the substantive
knowledge and skills you will need both to successfully complete the doctoral
program and enter into your future career. And, second, to assist you develop
relationships with your fellow doctoral students. The instructor serves as the
gate-keeper and convener, but students are expected to take responsibility for
the content of the sessions.
Required for:
Departmental regulations require doctoral students entering in 2007 to enroll in
the Doctoral Roundtable every quarter until they advance to candidacy. Except
for the first quarter as a doctoral student, you can request to waive up to two
quarters via a blue petition. Students starting the doctoral program in 2006 and
earlier are required to enroll for 6 of the 9 quarters during the first three
years of their doctoral residency.
Grading:
Grading is on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) basis. To obtain an S, each
student must write a brief synopsis or critique (or their equivalent) of/from 4
of the 5 sessions.
REQUIREMENTS
1.
Attendance:
Attend at least 4
of the 5 sessions.
2. Critique:
You must complete four critiques from four different class sessions
during the quarter. Critiques are due by 5:00 PM on the Friday
following the session. They should be e-mailed to 1) Steven Wallace
swallace@ucla.edu; and 2) Rachel Veerman
at roundtable@ph.ucla.edu; 3) the
presenter [critiques only].
3.
Making a presentation or organizing a session
All
students must make at least one presentation during the year. All continuing students must present fall or winter
quarter. Students who are making oral presentations at a
professional meeting should use this opportunity to make a practice
presentation. Students making a dissertation proposal are required to present
their proposal first in doctoral seminar. Students without a research project to
present can present a summary and critique of a recently published book that has
broad public health applicability or a summary and critique of a recently
published article that has generated academic debate. The book/articles chosen
must be approved in advance by the instructor. First year students may also
present a term paper or other literature review work they have conducted.
Presenting students must submit your powerpoint one week before the presentation to
roundtable@ph.ucla.edu. These will be posted on the website for other
students to reference.
In addition, students are
encouraged to organize one-hour sessions on topics of general interest to the
student group, such as panels of students/faculty/others on topics related to
skills and resources needed as a doctoral student, as well as longer-term
professional development. Click here for a list of topics prioritized for
2008-09.
Making a
presentation or organizing a session replaces one critique.
RESOURCES
Web
sites:
Doctoral students
have two web sites that contain pertinent information (4doctoralstudents). The
first web site is specific to CHS 286, and the address is
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/class/chs/chs286/. The second web site is the
department web site for doctoral students. Go to
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/chs/, and then click on Doctoral Students Only and
enter chsdoctoral and the word at the end of the first sentence of this
paragraph (in parenthesis). There is a lot of good information on the site
which I will not repeat here.
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