Available Formats
The Graduate Student Guidebook: From Orientation to Tenure Track
By (Author) The AEJMC Board of Directors
Edited by Katherine A. Foss
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
6th August 2020
United States
General
Non Fiction
Higher education, tertiary education
378.1550973
Hardback
168
Width 160mm, Height 229mm, Spine 17mm
449g
Graduate school is an important and confusing time, filled with many questions about the process and decisions that students must make. From Orientation to the Tenure-Track: The Grad Student Guidebook offers an overview of this experience, featuring expert advice on the many different steps and challenges that students encounter in their time as masters and doctoral students. Written in a conversational style, the chapters integrate advice, encouragement, and anecdotes to address specific components of the graduate school process.
Katherine A. Foss is a professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media at Middle Tennessee University. She is the head of the AEJMC Council of Divisions. Foss previously edited Beyond Princess Culture: Gender and Childrens Marketing (2019) and Demystifying the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations (2018). She is also the author of Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (2020), Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health (2017), and Television and Health Responsibility in an Age of Individualism (2014).