AP/ANTH 4130 6.00 The Professional Anthropologist: The Anthropologist as Practitioner
NOTE: NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED
The Professional Anthropologist is a capstone course for the Certificate and Minor in Advocacy and Public Engagement. It is a placement course designed to offer students essential skills and experience in implementing anthropological knowledge and training in a workplace. Students will work as an anthropologist with an approved host organization.
- Student placements are unpaid learning opportunities, where students can provide employers with extra support, while gaining excellent hands-on-work experience for academic credit
Each student is expected to commit to 150 hours of placement with the partner organization, and approximately 7 hours a week. Students will engage in experiential learning via community-based research project or research related activities, will develop enhanced skills in the application of social research methods in a public, private, governmental, or non- governmental organization setting.