27th June 2011, 06:59 PM
I fully agree Mr. Brody. GIS really is not that special anymore in archaeology. The good think though is that environmental, oil and gas, engineers, developers, etc. don't have saturation of gis people like archaeology does. I try to steer people to it not because they will get a archaeology job- there are very few of them for just GIS (it doesn?t hurt in general) but that it will get you a job somewhere else.
Looking at my posts, they might come off as a bit extreme to the full all out commercial only degree but I am actually think along the same lines. Choice! If student X wants to be an archaeologists then he should be able to take all the classes he needs. If student Y wants to fluff away all of mommy and daddys money then by all means they should be able to.
I guess the problem I see is that except for one or two programs that choice is not really there or the advice on what to do (most academics have not and never will do commercial). Not that students shouldn?t search out for advice but many times they are led astray not always on purpose, like I said the teachers rarely have been involved in anything else or if they were it was 20 or 30 years ago.
Looking at my posts, they might come off as a bit extreme to the full all out commercial only degree but I am actually think along the same lines. Choice! If student X wants to be an archaeologists then he should be able to take all the classes he needs. If student Y wants to fluff away all of mommy and daddys money then by all means they should be able to.
I guess the problem I see is that except for one or two programs that choice is not really there or the advice on what to do (most academics have not and never will do commercial). Not that students shouldn?t search out for advice but many times they are led astray not always on purpose, like I said the teachers rarely have been involved in anything else or if they were it was 20 or 30 years ago.