South Florida Training Program Undergoes Modifications

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Curtis Wienker
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Applied Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Level Training ◽  
Internship Training

The University of South Florida MA Program in Anthropology will change some of its requirements, beginning in the fall of 1983. The primacy emphasis of the program will continue to be the training of practicing anthropologists. During its nine years of existence, USF's Graduate Program in Anthropology has attracted considerable interest nationwide. It was the first exclusively applied program to focus explicitly on masters' level training in applied anthropology as preparation for other than academic careers. Various aspects of the program have recently been discussed in Practicing Anthropology, vol. 4, no. 3-4). Also, the program and especially its internship component were recently addressed in a review of Internship Training in Applied Anthropology: A Five Year Review (A. Wolfe, E. Chambers and J. Smith) by John van Willigen in Human Organization (vol. 41:3).

KARST IN URBAN AREAS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
PHILIP VAN BEYNE ◽  
VANDA CLAUDINO-SALES ◽  
SAULO ROBERTO DE OLIVEIRA VITAL ◽  
DIEGO NUNES VALADARES
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Florida ◽  
State University ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Important Data ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

In its third edition, the “William Morris Davis – Journal of Geomorphology” presents its second interview with geographers, to head the “Interviews” section, which opens each published issue. This time, it is the first international interview, carried out with Professor Philip van Beynen, from the University of South Florida, in the United States. Professor Philip van Beynen was interviewed on the topic “Karst in Urban Areas”, and brings important data on the subject, with beautiful illustrations and with examples from all over the world. The interview took place on September 17, 2020, with the participation of Vanda de Claudino-Sales (Professor of the Academic Master in Geography at the State University of Vale do Acarau-UVA) and Saulo Roberto Oliveira Vital (Professor of the Department of Geography and the Post-Graduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Paraiba - UFPB), and was transcribed by Diego Nunes Valadares, master's student on Geography at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Professor van Beynen was born in New Zealand, where he received his degree in Geography at the University of Auckland. He earned a master's degree from the same university, and a doctorate and post-doctorate from McMaster University, Canada. He has been a professor at the School of Geoscience at the University of South Florida since 2009, where he   has been developing research related to different components of karst environments. The interview shows his great expertise on the subject, and is very much worth to be read and seen even for those who are not specialists in karst.

Everybody's Business: The Care of Sick Children

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-21
Author(s):  
Rochelle Baccari
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Pinellas County ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
The University ◽  
Faculty Mentors

My internship was with Honeywell Corporation in St. Petersburg, Florida, working on a project closely associated with the Pinellas County Task Force on Day Care for Mildly Ill Children. According to my faculty mentors at the University of South Florida (USF), it was "out of sequence" in the sense that I was involved in it before I had met all the pre-internship requirements of the applied anthropology program. This came about because in early 1989 I went along with a faculty member to a meeting of that task force (then called ProjectLink because its aim was to connect business firms with providers of day care). In the course of the meeting I volunteered, or was volunteered, to begin some of the research necessary to carry out the task force aim of developing company-sponsored day care for children who were mildly ill. Before I knew it, I was deeply involved in addressing a fascinating set of problems and needs of modern urban life.

Promoting Cultural Sensitivity in Nursing Practice

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Nurse Specialist ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Clinical Nurse ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Nursing Career ◽  
The University

Nursing and anthropology have much in common, since both professions aim for a holistic view of their subjects. My interest in health and in culture started in adolescence and continued throughout my nursing career. The doctoral program in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida, in which I used my training as a clinical nurse specialist to meet the requirement for an external specialization, built on these two interests and has had a continuing impact on my subsequent professional career.

An Interview with Alvin W. Wolfe

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Kevin Yelvington
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Lafayette College ◽  
The University ◽  
Poor Children

Alvin W. Wolfe made a number of important contributions to applied anthropology throughout a career lasting nearly 50 years. Born in Nebraska in 1928, he joined the US Army in 1945 where he received training in Japanese language and culture, as well as participating in the armored and the airborne corps. Using the GI Bill he enrolled in the University of Nebraska where he majored in anthropology and English, graduating in 1950. He became interested in archaeology by working in a museum under the direction of archaeologist A.T. Hill. To learn more about the other fields of anthropology, he enrolled at Northwestern University where he did dissertation fieldwork among the Ngombe, of the then-Belgian Congo, in 1952-53 under the direction of Melville J. Herskovits. In 1954-55, he was the Logan Museum Teaching Fellow at Beloit College, from 1955-57 he taught at Middlebury College, 1957-61 at Lafayette College, 1961-68 at Washington University in St. Louis, and from 1968-74 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 1974, he joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, as part of the first Master's program in applied anthropology. He became the program's internship coordinator, and he participated in the establishment of the first Ph.D. in applied anthropology in 1984. In Tampa, he became active in social and medical service organizations, especially those involving the poor, children, families, and the elderly. He retired from USF as Distinguished Service Professor in May, 2003.

For Your Information

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-12
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Research Administration ◽  
Cultural Resources Management ◽  
Evaluation Functions ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
The University

A PhD in Applied Anthropology program has been authorized for implementation in 1984-5 at the University of South Florida. The program will focus primarily on training for employment in research, administration, planning and evaluation functions in such domains of application as health practice and services delivery, community, regional and international development, urban planning, design and services delivery, education and cultural resources management. In addition, training will be provided for those interested in teaching applied anthropology in academic settings. Applicants for admission are required to have in hand an MA degree in anthropology or a related discipline. The program, while independent, complements the MA in Applied Anthropology which was implemented in 1974-5. For further information, please write: Graduate Director, Dept of Anthropology, Univ of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620.

Applied Anthropology at the University of South Florida

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Gilbert Kushner ◽  
Alvin Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Doctoral Graduates ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
The University ◽  
Similar Experience

At the University of South Florida (USF) we have had almost twenty years of experience with internships in training practicing anthropologists at the master's level and nearly ten years of similar experience in our doctoral program. By the summer of 1992, the applied anthropology programs had produced 148 master's graduates and 10 doctoral graduates. In this issue of Practicing Anthropology we share some of what we have learned by highlighting the internship and subsequent professional experiences of a few of these graduates.

Issues In Applied Anthropology Training Programs

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 14-14
Author(s):  
Jean Schensul
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
The University

Any training program in applied anthropology or the applied behavioral sciences should begin with the following assumptions: that the institutionalization of anthropology in the university has been central to its survival as a discipline; that the current survival of anthropology as a discipline rests on its ability to train, place and retain the identification of anthropologists working in settings out-side the university; that the latter can only occur if anthropologists generate viable and demonstrably useful approaches in the application of research skills to social problems.

Urban Consulting Practice

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael English
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Education ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Perceptual Abilities ◽  
American Society ◽  
Problem Solvers ◽  
The University ◽  
Analytical Tools

In 1974 I enrolled in the inaugural class of the University of South Florida's (USF) M.A. program in applied anthropology. My undergraduate degree had been in finance and prelaw, and my experience with anthropology very limited. My interest in the program had been spurred by a St. Petersburg Times interview with Ailon Shiloh, then the graduate program director. The article told an exciting story about a new idea for anthropology—that the powerful analytical tools and perceptual abilities of the discipline could be taught to master's students, who could then be turned loose on modern American society to become effective and empathetic problem solvers. I was in my mid-twenties and ready to make a commitment to graduate education and a career. Anthropology had never occurred to me, probably because educational and career possibilities in this generally mysterious social science were limited, in my perception, to a Ph.D. and university teaching.

State–Trait Returns! And One Practitioner’s Request

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Vosburgh
Keyword(s):  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
South Florida ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Clinical Program ◽  
The University

The article by Macey and Schneider (2008) brings me nostalgically back to 1975–1979 and my graduate program at the University of South Florida. In the Industrial-Organizational (I-O) program, Dr. Herb Meyer was reminding us of “split roles in performance appraisal,” and in the Clinical program, Dr. Charlie Spielberger was gaining fame on his state–trait anxiety research—propelling him to president of the American Psychological Association in 1991. The logic of “state–trait” was compelling then and has withstood the test of time. It is surprising that it has taken this long to apply state–trait logic to other important measurements. As a practitioner who is soon to hire 12,000 new employees under one roof to open CityCenter in Las Vegas (2009), it is my hope that we can move beyond concept to selection tools that can help organizations create engaged cultures.

scholarly journals Cows, Pigs, Corporations, and Anthropologists

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald D. Stull
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Garden City ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Service Award ◽  
The University

Don Stull is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Kansas, where he taught from 1975 to 2015. He has been editor-in-chief of Human Organization, president of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and a recipient of the SfAA’s Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award. In 2001 he was presented with the key to Garden City, Kansas, and made an honorary citizen in recognition of the value of his work to this community.

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