  Graduate courses can provide specialized knowledge for Ph.D. and Master's
students and contribute to develop their hard and soft skills. At the same
time, Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been increasingly adopted in the
computing area as a valuable technique to synthesize the state of the art of a
given research topic. However, there is still a poor understanding of the real
benefits and drawbacks of offering the SLR course for graduate students. This
paper reports an experience that examines such benefits and drawbacks, the
difficulties for professors (i.e., educators), and the essential SLR topics to
be taught as well as a way to better teach them. We also surveyed computer
science graduate students who attended the SLR course, which we have offered
for almost ten years for Ph.D. and Master's students in our institution. We
found the attendance to the SLR course is a valuable opportunity for graduate
students to conduct the required deep literature review of their research
topic, improve their research skills, and increase their formation. Hence, we
recommend that Ph.D. and Masters' programs offer the SLR course to contribute
to their academic achievement.
