Goals for the program
- The program will introduce graduate students to a wide range of electronic
sources and methods that are immediately relevant to their dissertation research
and will also be applicable to their future life of scholarship, teaching, and
community engagement. The program will begin with graduate students in the
humanities, who are the least likely to have had prior experience with tools and
methods made possible by new technologies.
- As these graduate students gain practical experience by working on their
own topics, the program will offer models for new ways of learning; in that
context, students will be encouraged to think creatively about teaching as well
as research.
- The program will foster intellectual community among graduate students by
providing opportunities to question how these new tools and methods may foster
interdisciplinary thinking and affect scholarship and teaching.
- The program will enrich relationships among senior faculty and graduate
students, by providing opportunities for mutual mentoring around issues of new
research and teaching strategies. Students can themselves become mentors to
senior faculty as they share their knowledge of new methods, and will benefit
from the critique and insight of seasoned professors.
- The program will create models that can be replicated elsewhere.
