Classroom to Careers in Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A new course taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) during Fall 2022 provided early career planning information to lower division undergraduates. Titled “Anthropology Matters”, the course had the goal of enhancing the success of undergraduate majors preparing for anthropology related careers. Representing the subdisciplines of archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology, we each presented modules on careers in our respective subdisciplines. The course worked closely with the UTSA Career Center in offering multiple career planning tools to students. Final projects consisted of electronic posters allowing students to showcase their personal career plan. We summarize pre-class and post-class assessment data to evaluate the efficacy of this new endeavor.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37312.0