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Tiêu đề
Linking Sociology Majors to Labor Market Success
Tác giả
Ciabattari T.; Lowney K.S.; Monson R.A.; Senter M.S.; Chin J.
Năm xuất bản
2018
Source title
Teaching Sociology
Số trích dẫn
10
DOI
10.1177/0092055X18760691
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Colleges and universities face pressures from multiple stakeholders to attend to the labor market success of their graduates. In this article, we argue that it is in the best interests of sociology students and the discipline that sociology programs respond proactively to these pressures. We encourage sociology programs to design curricula that develop student skills in critical sociological thinking as well as explicitly connect skills to career-related interests. After reviewing research on what employers expect, what students want to learn, and sociology graduates’ first labor market experiences, we offer suggestions about how programs can respond to the requests for accountability for employment outcomes without substantially revising the traditional undergraduate sociology curriculum or expending excessive amounts of faculty time on new initiatives. We argue that integrating liberal learning and applied learning is the best way to serve students and the discipline. © 2018, American Sociological Association 2018.
Từ khóa
applied learning; career pathways; employment; liberal learning; sociology curriculum
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Nơi xuất bản
SAGE Publications Inc.
Hình thức xuất bản
Review
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus