{"id":19,"date":"2013-02-21T14:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2013-02-21T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:50:46","slug":"graduate-student-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/graduate-student-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graduate Student Education in Political Theory<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nEach student&#8217;s program is tailored to her interests within the constraints of departmental requirements. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/graduate\/political-theory\/index.php\">Guide to the Study of Political Theory at Vanderbilt University<\/a> is designed to help students design a successful program.<br \/>\nThe dissertation is the most important project of the graduate career. The student works closely with a faculty mentor in designing her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/aWsIuc\/Dissertation%20Guidelines.doc\">dissertation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your first field is not political theory, you may find the discipline of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemason.vanderbilt.edu\/d5fuko\/Writing%20a%20Paper%20in%20Political%20Theory.doc\">writing a paper in Political Theory<\/a> useful for clarifying your thinking about the issue you consider worthy of your research and thinking.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to an interview on teaching strategies, please click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cftpodcast\/?p=32\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Student Education in Political Theory Each student&#8217;s program is tailored to her interests within the constraints of departmental requirements. The\u00a0Guide to the Study of Political Theory at Vanderbilt University is designed to help students design a successful program. The dissertation is the most important project of the graduate career. The student works closely with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/ackerly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}