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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Petersburg Times , and Deborah Tannen for The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post , and Vogue to name a few.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.” He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

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What’s it like to teach psychology?

Jonathan Firth

I became interested in teaching when I was an undergraduate, through the experience of giving talks to my Honours class and leading small seminars – I found that I enjoyed explaining concepts and research to others. In terms of the Higher, there is a big focus on research. Some have their own degree programmes, too.

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Some colleges and universities are bringing the classroom to the workplace

The Hechinger Report

Among other subjects, the students here take courses in sociology, psychology, English composition, science and math — all at the site of the kind of business where the principles they learn in the classroom and from textbooks can be put into practice.

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Luxury private student housing further divides rich and poor on campuses

The Hechinger Report

In an industry whose size is measured by the number of beds for rent, the top 25 private owners collectively account for more than 800,000 of them, according to Student Housing Business magazine. colleges, the research site iREIT said. That number is fast approaching a fifth of the total “purpose-built student housing” at U.S.

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After a tough but promising freshman year, Dartmouth student tackles change at elite campuses

The Hechinger Report

He’s now studying sociology along with markets, management and the economy , while working two part-time jobs on campus so he can send money home. Wealth disparities aside, Inoa is floored by his freedom to take a pre-med track along with sociology and a dizzying array of courses in subjects to which he’d never been exposed.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Hagopian: Incredible research you did on that. And I can see so many applications of your research for educators, for language arts teachers, math teachers talking, using the research you did on statistics.