EMP 990   EMU PRofessor  6 credits
Dissertation Research and Writing

Audience and Prerequisites

This course is open to doctoral candidates in Energy Medicine who have successfully completed their Qualifying Examination in EMP 980 and are ready to formally complete their dissertation research project.

The final project is the cornerstone of graduate degree work. It may take any of several forms, quantitative, qualitative, or participatory action research, or a major project demonstrating excellence, depending upon the expectations of the program faculty. In whatever form it takes, it must represent original work by the participant. At the masters level, it is the demonstration of mastery of an advanced body of knowledge in a given field. At the doctoral level, it is an original contribution to the field. The final project will take the form of a standard “traditional” dissertation of 150 or more typewritten pages for the dissertation. The document will conform to the guidelines of the University, the expectations of faculty, and the APA style manual.

Objectives

In the course of the research project each student will:

• Effectively plan and complete a major work of research which permits the demonstration of excellence within the student’s general area of study.
• State a problem or formulate a hypothesis for intensive study and research.
• Prepare and accomplish the overall design of a project, an experiment or a critical analysis and synthesis in the chosen field of study.
• Plan and accomplish the effective interpretation of data and information from the planned study.
• Determine and use techniques for drawing valid conclusions.
• Understand the proper manner of reporting results to other scholars within the field of study and carry out such communication.
• Understand and use the guidelines that govern the structuring of the academic argument, the presentation of the scholarly discussion, and the formatting of the document.

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