by KC Jones In hiring practices and career development, humanities students historically begin their academic journeys behind the proverbial eight ball. Anthropology students in particular are at a disadvantage, with 12,000 recent graduates as of 2016 fighting for only a few hundred jobs in their field. 1 For three consecutive years, both Kiplinger Business Forecast…
by Cameron Steuart At this point in the year, the students in my Music in the Twentieth-Century course are just getting started with the first assignment that will eventually build to an end-of-term paper. For this component, they have to provide me with a topic and an abstract that is focused on methodology. In anticipation…
by Karen Sesterhenn I am the writing coach for an undergraduate syntax course, but I am not a syntactician. The first time I had even studied the subject at length was only the semester before, so I didn’t feel qualified to be a TA for the course as the academic year approached. And I couldn’t follow…