Qualifying Paper

Harvard FAS

This seminar provides doctoral students in the Department of Sociology an opportunity to workshop drafts of their qualifying paper (QP). Submission of a satisfactory QP is required in order to progress to the dissertation project. The department expects the QP to be an original piece of research that is of publishable quality. Participants will receive different types of feedback on their projects throughout the semester: first, from the entire class when introducing the project; second, from…