RLL Prospectus Workshop

ROM-LANG 304 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

The main objective of this workshop is to help Doctoral students at Romance Languages and Literatures develop their prospectus. The prospectus is a requisite that is meant to be submitted by the Summer of the students 3rd Year, six months after completion of the general examination. The prospectus consists of a preliminary description of the proposed dissertation project, thus the course is designed for students who are past their examinations. As described in the Graduate handbook, the prospectus should delineate what topic and area the dissertation will explore; discuss why this topic and area merit such exploration; and include a provisional chapter outline. The outline, which can be in narrative form, should be as precise as possible, even if it is likely to be modified in the course of writing the dissertation. Throughout the semester, we will deconstruct the process in smaller pieces, to make the task of writing the prospectus less daunting and to make sure that students include everything needed for a successful presentation of their project to their respective committees. By the end of the semester, they should all have a finalized version of their prospectus.