Curriculum & content

10) Students reflect on how their profesSional aspirations and STEM knowledge and skills could address community, lOCal, global issues. 

Students discuss the community, local, and global issues that they care about.

• Majoring in STEM: Pipelines for social justice? Article about students making connections between STEM careers and social justice interest.

• A Rapid Response to Racism in STEM article from Inside Higher Ed about how colleges can teach science through a social justice lens and turn curricular challenges into opportunities for inclusive excellence.

• Students research how big ideas of course are related to future careers.

• Make a vision statement of how students can impact a local or global issue (For example, in this highly structured format).

Students discuss their professional aspirations and potential careers in the discipline, in light of the issues they care about. 

• Move away from asking “what do you want to do after college” to asking “what do you care about?” or “what interests you?”

• Connect content to local issues: Food sustainability, power grid, pandemic, potable water, environmental racism, food deserts, etc.

• WWU Career Center

• WCC  Career Center

• UTRGV Career Center

Students explore careers in the discipline and the ways in which they address local and global issues (internships, jobs, etc.)