Co-op for Arts PhD Students Creating Conditions to Grow Graduate-Level Co-op
Graduate student education is grounded in a “master-apprentice” paradigm. Faculty are training PhD students to become the next generation of professors—a career path that only a few PhD graduates will pursue. Yet UBC Arts graduate students in academic programs have lower participation rates in co-op than their peers in professional graduate programs.
To increase Arts PhD students’ participation in co-op, we need a cultural shift in the humanities and social sciences—a shift that enables faculty members to see co-op as a benefit, not a diversion, for their trainees. We proposed a two-part project to shift Arts faculty members’ perceptions of co-op, helping them to see it as a viable form of scholarly learning.
Key Learning Objectives:
By attending this session, you’ll learn more about what the UBC Arts Co-operative Education Program has tried to help PhD students and their academic mentors & dissertation supervisors to understand the potential connections between WIL and scholarship.