RESEARCH APPRENTICESHIP GUIDELINES
The research apprenticeship* is designed to be an authentic mentorship experience into academic research for PhD students. Students may begin this experience at various points in their program, but it should have been completed before the dissertation proposal. Students may complete their apprenticeship as part of their residency year, but this is not a requirement.

Specific guidelines**:

1. Students work on faculty research projects.
2. The apprenticeship may be 0-6 credit hours.
3. Students complete a paper as a culminating experience. The paper is read and evaluated by two faculty members (decided by the advisor and negotiated with T&C faculty). While there may be some variation in length or detail, generally the paper will:
   a. Describe the process of research conducted
   b. Link the student’s apprenticeship experience to his/her dissertation research (e.g. how did the apprenticeship experience relate to the dissertation?).

* The “second year project” has been subsumed under the research apprenticeship.
** These guidelines do not preclude individual faculty from developing unique
apprenticeship experiences for their students.