Dissertation Proposal Development

The College of Liberal Arts provides dissertation proposal development support, resources, and programming for graduate students to expand and improve upon their formal dissertation prospectus for humanities and social science doctoral students at the University of Minnesota.

Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies

• Dissertation Chapter Workshops
• Summer Dissertation Writing Retreat
• RIDGS Dissertation Proposal Development Program

Center for Writing

• Student Writing Support for Graduate Writers

Graduate School 

• Community of Scholars Program Writing Initiative

OneStop, UMN

• Thesis Formatting & Submission Guidelines.docx

UMN Libraries

• Library resources and services for graduate students
• Dissertation Calculator
• Tips from the Libraries:
  • Dissertations from the University of North Carolina Writing Center
• Strategies:
  • Twelve Common Errors: An Editing Checklist, from UW Madison
  • Higher Order Concerns and Lower Order Concerns from Purdue
• Prepare for Defense:
  • Dissertation Defense from Texas A&M