Presentation to chairs of departments of anthropology about how to prepare anthropology majors for a competitive job market. How to train them and frame anthro skills.
7. STUDENTS AS CONTENT CREATORS
• Manage the process from soup to nuts:
• Gather data ethically using mixed
methods
• Organize and process data with a variety
of tools
• Produce outputs in many forms
• Distribute across various platforms
• Promote work across various media
8. EPIC PROJECT AND
STUDENT
ETHNOGRAPHERS
19 CSUs
In collaboration with departments at CSU
San Marcos and San Diego State
University
MOOC on ethics and fieldwork praxis
hosted at SDSU Language Acquisition
Research Center
Two cohorts (AY 2016-2017)
Ca. 20 students total Demographically diverse
11. STRONG
EMPHASIS ON
ETHNOGRAPHIC
METHODS AND
TECHNIQUES
Different types of interviewing
methods/scenarios: IDIs vs intercepts
Understanding what Participant
Observation is and does
Practice with tools for recording:
audio, visual, but especially fieldnotes
Let students use phones – we don’t
use cameras and the like
12. MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE FIELD
Encourage internships in
for profit and
government
organizations
Conduct outreach with
those orgs to establish
pipelines
16. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN TODAY’S WORLD
• Department guidelines are updated
• Reflective of current ways of conducting and producing ethnographic research
• Students need to know a LOT of applications just to function in a collaborative
environment with dispersed/virtual teams:
• Many they know already
• (Google docs, Dropbox)
• Many they do not
• (Slack, Doodle, Trello, Zotero)