{"id":1098,"date":"2022-11-29T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/?page_id=1098"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:12:59","slug":"training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/graduate\/training\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h4>As described in the \u201cAbout the Graduate Program\u201d page, USC English is committed not just to instructing students, but to providing them with the skills, knowledge, and experience required to succeed in the profession.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n    \n  \n    \n    \n  \n    \n    \n  \n    \n    \n  \n    \n  \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--interactive-content-pane \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--interactive-content-pane\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"left\">\n      \n    <div class=\"pagination-wrapper\">\n      <ul class=\"interactive-content-pane-pagination\"><\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"right\">\n          <div class=\"swiper\">\n        <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Professional Training \n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Students have the opportunity to progress through a series of 2- and 4-credit seminars that focus on aspects of professionalization from the beginning to end of the Ph.D. program.\u00a0Upon enrolling in the fall semester, all students are required take\u00a0<strong>English 501: Introduction to Graduate Study: Critical Methods and Practice I<\/strong>, a team-taught course designed to expose students in both the literature and the creative writing tracks to critical methodologies, recent theories, and debates in the field, as well as introduce them to issues of professional development that reach from publication to conferences.\u00a0An advanced elective version of this course,\u00a0<strong>English 601<\/strong>, explores specific issues in methodology and practice. Designed to prompt students to consider the academic choices and future for which their project is slotting them,<strong>\u00a0English 700: Theories and Practices of Professional Development I<\/strong>, focuses on the development of the dissertation prospectus and the construction of one\u2019s field areas in preparation for the qualifying examination process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Development Programs\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The\u00a0<strong>Scholarly and Professional Development Institute<\/strong>\u00a0for doctoral students, sponsored by the USC Graduate School, is a semester-long program offered for a selected interdisciplinary cohort. The Institute is open to all USC doctoral students. For more information about the application, requirements, expectations and opportunities, please see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/graduateschool.usc.edu\/\"><strong>the Graduate School website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Graduate School also offers\u00a0<strong>seminars and presentations<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the semester. Previous seminars include: \u201cDeveloping an (Inter)National Academic Presence,\u201d \u201cBuilding an Academic Online Presence &amp; Strategies for Using Scholarly Social Media,\u201d and \u201cWriting the Job Market Package: Cover Letters &amp; Personal Statements.\u201d More information about dates and seminar topics are available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/graduateschool.usc.edu\/events\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. Space is limited; early registration is recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dissertation Working Groups<\/strong>\u00a0are small discipline-focused groups of 6 to 8 advanced doctoral candidates at the post-data collection stage. DWGs are split into thematic groups, including Humanities and Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education \u2013 Interdisciplinary, as well as other groups.<\/p>\n<p>Ten-week\u00a0<strong>workshop programs<\/strong>\u00a0are also available to doctoral students. Attendees are taught various strategies through mini-lecturers, group work, and independent self-paced assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Job Placement\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Most important, however, in the student\u2019s career training is the placement seminar,\u00a0<strong>English 701<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Theories and Practices of Professional Development II<\/strong>, offered every fall semester by the placement director (a faculty member who is invested in graduate education and works closely with the graduate director). English 701 rigorously trains the student in the sets of skills and materials needed to succeed in the competitive job market.<\/p>\n<p>This training is completed in December by practice interviews and succeeded in the spring semester by practice job talks and teaching practicums. Without exception, our students rave about this part of their training, which includes many hours of one-on-one instruction with the placement director as well as in-class training that involves most members of the faculty. The results are clear in the greatly increased number of MLA interviews, campus fly-back visits, and tenure-track placements our Ph.D. students have garnered in the last four years. Travel to the annual MLA meeting for job interviews is funded by the department up to a set amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Publication Workshops\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Another aspect of USC English that enhances our students\u2019 career possibilities are the workshops we hold on publication. Over the past five years we have invited a number of prominent scholars and editors to hold day-long workshops with our students geared to transforming their essays into publishable articles, as well as their dissertations into books. In recent years our visiting experts have included Nancy Armstrong (Brown University, editor of\u00a0<em>Novel<\/em>, editorial board of\u00a0<em>PMLA<\/em>), Catherine Gallagher (UC Berkeley and editor of\u00a0<em>Representations<\/em>), LeAnn Fields (editor of University of Michigan Press), Donald Pease (Dartmouth College), and Helen Tartar (editor at Stanford UP). These seminars have resulted in publications as well as conference paper acceptances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Student-Led Events and Workshops\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The English department also encourages graduate students to participate in conferences and events in multiple ways. First, it funds travel to conferences for all students presenting papers or for job interviews up to a set amount. Second, the Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS) organizes a series of events each year, including workshops, readings and invited talks, where students learn invaluable skills in choosing an event topic, planning and organizing panels and events, inviting \u00a0speakers, and facilitating intellectual exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n  \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n  <div class=\"background-images\">\n          <div class=\"swiper swiper-background-images\">\n        <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            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