Day 5 of Year 3 Residency: Scholarly Thinking
Day Five was the start of a second class. This one is concentrating on our dissertations and how to refine and ready our proposals. At this point it’s a bit difficult for me to think in terms of my dissertation because I’m just so tired.
This week has been full of very long days and late nights. During the first class we had to work on presentations with our teams every night and then get up and present on a topic we know nothing about in scholarly terms. Thanks to the Internet there is TONS of information out there on the topics that we were given. Making everything you’re saying about the topics sound scholarly is the challenging part!
Our topics for the first class were:
- Financial Collapse
- Climate Change
- Stem Cell Research
- Nuclear Weapons
- World Peace
- Leadership Theory
I’m sure I’ve missed some. I’ll add to the list as they come back to me.
One of the things that I found very interesting about the topics above was that every presentation on each topic was so completely different. Nobody repeated references or perspectives. We all came at each topic from a different angle. Even though the topics were heavy, it really was a learning experience on scholarly presentation and scholarly thinking!
