A. Training is accomplished through course work, mentoring, practical experience such as an internship, and thesis. Practice needs to be integrated into the educational experience from the beginning. Student identification with the discipline needs to be fostered through graduate program activities that encourage participation in discipline-based organization, programs and events. B. Instructional work content. Programs should incorporate instruction in the following areas.
Instruction can take various forms.
These include course work, guided independent study, internships, and apprenticeships. The instruction should cover research design, data collection, and data analysis dealing with both qualitative and quantitative data. The content should include descriptive statistics, sampling, probabilistic statistics and multivariate analysis as well as qualitative analysis. There should be hands-on experience with statistical and textual data analysis software. This may include the history of anthropological theory and various substantive areas such as cultural ecology, organizational behavior, economic anthropology, social organization, and gender studies.