LING689M   (1 credit)                
Professional Methods
Fall 2022

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Week by week topics and tasks (Subject to change. Check this site frequently.)

Aug. 31     Course overview
Sept. 7     CVs  Upload a draft of yours. Here are some suggestions  and here is a useful link.
Here's an interesting guide to Locating and Applying for Linguistics Jobs in both the Academic and Private Sectors. It has sections on CVs as well as several of our other major topics.
Sept. 14  NO CLASS BECAUSE SOME OF YOU WILL BE AT CONFERENCES
Sept. 21   More on CVs.
Web sites. Send me the url of your site, or put it on the list in the shared folder yourself.
Also, look for appropriate job ads (need not be current) and begin working on draft of application letter to upload. Here's a HO of mine on cover letters, here's an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education.  (Unfortunately, the links to sample letters in this pdf don't work, but the advice offered is generally good.) And here's an excerpt on cover letters, including one sample, from U. of Texas Academic Job Search Handbook.
Sept. 28   Finish discussion of web sites. Application cover letters. Upload a draft (and accompanying job ad).
Oct. 5  Finish discussion of application letters. Do first draft of "Dean's question" answer. (You can find samples from 2018 and 2020 in the Uploaded stuff link on this site.)
-Link to UCI guide to "Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement"
Oct. 12  Finish discussion of application letters. Then discussion of Dean's question answers. Upload yours before class. Look at those from previous years for ideas. You will want to convey (or at least hint) what the field and your corner of it is about, why it's intersting and important, and what your particular contribution is (all to someone who most likely never even had Ling 101).
Oct. 19   We will finish discussion of Dean's question answers. Then departmental interview practice. Bring in your questions. All of you will be interviewers, and, in turn, interviewees. Our wiki has some ideas to get you started on interview questions. More interview questions.
Oct. 26    More interviews. Also, start working on your Research Statement. Upload your draft by   Oct. 31. You can see previous students' ones from 2018 and 2020 in the folder linked above. And here are some general suggestions: Dr. Karen's Rules of the Research Statement  <In our field, 3 pages is a pretty typical length.>
Nov. 2   Mock interview (ARHU Associate Dean Trevor Parry-Giles will conduct the interviews, offer suggestions, and answer questions).
Nov. 9  Final departmental interviews. Research Statements. Upload yours in advance, and look at the others prior to class.
Nov. 16  More Research Statements. Upload yours by Nov. 14. Read all of them before Nov. 16.
Nov. 23  NO CLASS. THANKSGIVING RECESS
Nov. 30  Really final departmental interviews. We will do an interview with Gesoel Mendes, a recent UMD grad who has made the short list at USC. I uploaded his cover letter (all his other stuff is linked in the cover letter). I will set up a Zoom.
Research Statements.
Dec. 7    Last class meeting. Research Statements.