The second half of the two part PRO -SEMINAR is aimed at first year PhD students in Architecture and continues the work of integrating students to the PhD community of scholarship. Students further interrogate questions of academic scholarship and freedom, types of research trajectories and technologies, the role of publications, and career trajectories. Course methods are similar to the first semester including attendance at weekly seminars offered by returning students, graduate group faculty, graduates of the program, and invited guests. Students are tasked with preparing weekly readings in order to lead the question and discussion session and written pieces of scholarship. In maintaining the tradition of the program’s PhD Talks, while some of the seminar sessions are open to the larger doctoral community that includes its students and faculty, others are dedicated exclusively to registered students. An important goal of the seminar is to introduce all students to each other and to create a vertical community of scholars across both sub-areas of history/theory and technology.
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