The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School

What does it take to get into and through graduate school? What special challenges, opportunities and issues face an African-American graduate student? This book offers practical advice to help African-American students get the most of their graduate school experience.

List of contents

Graduate School Is...
Making the Right Choice about Where To Go to Graduate School and Getting in with Money
Developing a Master Plan
Staying in the Game - with Robert Brandau
Know When to Leave the Party
A Handbook for Mastering the Moves
Selecting and Managing Your Major Professor and Advisory Committee
Getting Through the Thesis or Dissertation
Surviving the Defense
Looking Back and Moving Forward - With Donna Walter and L Denise Edwards
When Racism Rears Its Ugly Head

Summary

What does it take to get into and through graduate school? What special challenges, opportunities and issues face an African-American graduate student? This book offers practical advice to help African-American students get the most of their graduate school experience.

Product details

• Authors: Alicia Isaac
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.1998
• EAN: 9780761903826
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0382-6
• No. of pages: 154
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 203 g
• Series: Graduate Survival Skills; Surviving Graduate School; Surviving Graduate School
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology