GSLM 54000     Skills in Research     Fall 14/15

 

Instructor

 

Course Overview

 

Tentative Schedule and References

 

References

 

Slides

 

Assignments

 

Assessments

 

 Instructor    Yat-wah Wan   (Room: C317;  Ext: 3166;  Email: ywan@mail.ndhu.edu.twOffice Hours:  Tu 3–5 pm, and by appointment)

 

 

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Course Overview

Fresh graduate students are often caught by surprise in the first few months of their graduate studies.  Norms and practices of their undergraduate school days do not work properly, if working at all.  This one-credit course hopes to shorten the time for fresh graduate students to turn mature.  

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Tentative Schedule

 

 
Date
Contents
References
Sept 23
What to Study? 
[1], [3], [4]
Sept 30
How to Watch a Movie?  
[10]
Oct 7
How to Search?
 
Oct 14
Necessary to learn English?
 
Oct 21
How to Learn English? 
 
Oct 28
English Recital and Performance
 
Nov 4
How to Learn and Think?
 
Nov 11
October Sky  (Mid-Term Week)
[6], [7]
Nov 18
How to Present? 
 
Nov 25
How to Read a Paper?
[2]
Dec 2
Project Proposal 
 
Dec 9
How to Review Literature? 
[5]
Dec 16
How to Read a Book? 
[11], [12]
Dec 23
How to Learn Chinese? 
[13], [14]
Dec 30
Seize the Day
[8], [9]
Jan 6
Project Presentation   
 
Jan 13
Project Presentation   
 
 

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References

 
How to be a graduate student
 
[1]              王汎森[2005] 如果讓我重做一次研究生,演講http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ylwang2008/a-wangvonsen.pdf
 
[2]              畢恆達 [2005] 教授為甚麼沒告訴我?。台北:學富。
 
[3]            Neusner, Jacob [1991] The Social Contract between Teachers and Students.  Appeared as “Proefssor Jacob Neusner Defines the Social Contract between Teachers and Students,” in Lend Me Your Ears:  Great Speeches in History, editor William Safire, pp 1027-1030.
 
[4]            Santiago Ramon y Caja [2000] 研究科學的第一步: 給年輕探索者的建議/程樹德譯;臺北市:究竟。
 
[5]	彭明輝[]學術文獻回顧與分析的程序與技巧。
                http://mhperng.blogspot.tw/2011/04/literature-survey_18.html
 
 
Movies
 
[6]            侯麥希.坎姆(Homer H. Hickam, Jr.)原著[] 十月的天空(October Sky)  
 
[7]            Dialogue Transcript of October Sky. 

  http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/o/october-sky-script-transcript-gyllenhall.html.

 

[8]            彼得.魏爾(Peter Weir)導演; 羅賓.威廉斯(Robin Williams)演出 [] 春風化雨(Dead Poet’s Society)
 
[9]            Dialogue Transcript of Dead Poet’s Society

  http://www.angelfire.com/movies/closedcaptioned/dead_poets.html 

 

[10]            鈕承澤導演[2010] 艋舺

 

Books and Book Reading 
 
[11]      艾德勒(Mortimer Adler)、范多倫(Charles Van Doren) [2003] 如何閱讀一本書/郝明義;朱衣譯臺北市: 臺灣商務
 

[12]             郝明義[2007] 他們說有關書與人生的一些訪談;出版社:網路與書出版

 
Translation

 

[13]      思果 [1994] 翻譯研究 ;臺北市: 大地。

 

[14]      思果 [1982] 翻譯新究;臺北市姚宜瑛出版。

 

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Slides

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Assignments
 
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Assessments
 
	Assignments    	40% 
	Mid-Term (Proposal)	20%
	Project               	40%  

There are various forms of assignments, including readings, essays, literature search, project proposals, and presentations.  For his project, a student presents his findings in a topic of humanity and social sciences.

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