"Where the Rubber Meets the Road": Providing Students with Rigorous Learning Experiences in a Curriculum and Instruction Doctoral Residency Seminar.

The purpose of this article is to describe a doctoral residency seminar course that is part of a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction degree program. Courses such as these provide new doctoral students with the necessary experiences to help them succeed in the program. This course is a venue for students to discuss the degree program, including academic writing, publishing, presenting at conferences, teaching in higher education, and serving the university, profession, and community, and course assignments corresponding to these areas will be presented. After completing my Summer 2021 seminar course, my students received an electronic survey that consisted of six Likert scale items and six open-ended response items that asked about their experiences in the course, as well as five demographic items. Descriptive statistics were run for the survey's Likert items. The open-ended responses were coded, and the codes were grouped into themes. Overall, the responses to the Likert scale items were positive. The following themes emerged from the survey: academic writing and disseminating research, networking, the dissertation journey, and recommendations for future seminar courses. The findings have implications for doctoral program instructors who are creating or sustaining a seminar course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]