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Career ready curriculum

Join our project!

We are conducting a collaborative study of how anthropology programs prepare undergraduate and graduate students for a wide range of careers. The goal of this study is to assess the state of the field as well as evaluate the career ready curriculum framework. We envision that the study and updated framework will help anthropologists develop career-ready curricula at their institutions and better prepare students for a wide range of careers.

We invite you (and/or your departmental colleagues) to join this collaborative project and tell the canonical story of your undergraduate and/or graduate program(s). What is the story that you tell your students, applicants, and yourself about your programs and how it prepares students for life beyond the degree? Here are some guiding questions that may help you write the story of your program.

  1. What is the mission or vision of your program, i.e., what is the overarching story? What are the objectives or expected learning outcomes of your program?
  2. What does career readiness mean for students in your program? What does a career ready curriculum look like in your program?
  3. How are students trained in your program? How are these learning activities organized in your program? What are the required components? What are optional components?
  4. What kind of students does the program serve? What are the career interests of the students? 
  5. What are the outcomes of your program? What are your alumni doing in terms of careers? How do you keep track of program outcomes? How successful is the program? 
  6. How does your program compare to other (applied) anthropology programs? What do you think is unique or special about your program?
  7. What are the challenges that you encountered in developing (and running) a career ready curriculum?

Keep in mind that we are interested in your perspective on the program. We want to get your point of view. Not just the official story from the website.

We envision that everyone that contributes a story is a collaborator, and that contributors who help with data analysis and writing up the results become co-authors of the paper. It is participatory research project in which the participants are other researchers. The stories that we collected are about 1,500 to 2,500 words. You can email your story and your questions to Mark Moritz (moritz.42@osu.edu) by May 15th. The rough timeline is as follows:

Before summer – stories due
During summer – data analysis and first draft
Autumn – finishing the paper and submitting it for publication

We hope you join us!