Curricular, Departmental, and Pedagogic Implications

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Curricular, Departmental, and Pedagogic
Implications

• What Can I Do with a Bachelors Degree in
  Sociology?

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Link Undergraduate Curriculum to Students Future
Plans

• Separate curriculum/concentration for students
  who are not going to be researchers/sociologists?

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Improved Advising

• Better links to Career Services
• Workshops on resumes/interviews
• Make explicit links between assignments and job
  skills
• Alumni panels
• Information on local labor markets/graduate
  schools

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Career-Building Assignments in Courses

• Locate labor market data
• Interview practitioners
• Alumni surveys
• Content analysis of resumes

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Proseminar for Sophomores

• Career exploration
• Resume/job interviewing skills
• Introduction to faculty, departmental resources
• Discussion of minors/cognates
• Introduction to campus resources

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Enhanced Methods/Statistics Training

• More? Better training
• Integration of data analysis throughout the
  curriculum
• Conceptualize statistics/methods as lab courses
  so that the skill component is more obvious

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Enhanced Application/Integration

• More applied activities such as service learning,
  community-based research, and internships
• Capstone courses as venue for such activities
• More application emphasis in theory/methods
  courses