Dissertation Completion & Defense This course is designed primarily to provide assistance to doctoral candidates as they move through the process of drafting and completing their dissertations. The course provides hybrid-learning platforms via face-to-face, synchronous, and online faculty-doctoral candidate meetings, strategies to assist writers in completing the Chapter 5: Discussion, organizing and editing the entire manuscript, and preparing it for final defense and publication. The dissertation advisors are expected to spend 28 contact or teaching hours with their dissertation advisees during the duration of this course. For more details about the responsibilities of the dissertation advisor, see the Student/Faculty Handbook, 2B. The Dissertation Committee and Advisor and 2C. Responsibilities of the Dissertation Committee Members.