From fachesterl at usao.edu  Thu Nov 18 12:59:55 2004
From: fachesterl at usao.edu (Lee Hester)
Date: Thu Nov 18 12:37:17 2004
Subject: [OklahomaIndianStudies] Help with some brainstorming
Message-ID: <000001c4cda0$cafdab20$0a0c000a@ahlab.usao.edu>

Our school has created a number of 1 page student guides to career paths in
different majors. I have been trying to brainstorm and get some ideas to put
down for American Indian Studies.

 

They divide the paper into three areas, Career Paths, Hiring Institutions
and Marketable Skills.  What do you think we could say about American Indian
Studies in each of these areas?  In the example I've given below, some of
the things are very general (e.g. "critical thinking" under marketable
skills) and could probably be claimed by any college graduate (though the
claim isn't always true.).  There are some things that are listed in the
example that I think are a bit farfetched like "aerospace engineer" under
career path.  Though I can see a computer science person working on cad/cam
or computation as a member of an aerospace engineering team, I don't think
I'd call them an aerospace engineer.

 

Anyway, what do you think we could claim in each of these areas.

 

Here is a short example taken from the Computer Science Career Paths paper:

 

Career Paths with a Bachelor's in Computer Science

Actuary                                                             Data
Control Admin

Aerospace Engineer                                           Data Processing
Manager

Applied Science Technologist                             .

Artificial Intelligence Programmer                         .

.                                                                       .

.                                                                       .

.                                                                       .

Cryptographer                                                    Research
Analyst

 

 

Hiring Institutions                                   Business Corporations

Banks/Savings and Loans                       Government Agencies

Engineer Firms                                      .

Investment Firms                                   .

.                                                           .

.                                                           .

.R&D Firms                                           Weather Bureaus

 

Marketable Skills

Abstract and Formal Reasoning

Knowledge of Operating Systems

Testing

Mathematical Skills

.

.

.

Critical Thinking

.

.

Advanced Quantitative Abilities

 

 

 

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