ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how university–industry collaborations may unfold through case-based teaching. Drawing on the authors’ engagement in a bachelor's course on applied anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, as well as their ten years of experience with external collaboration and real-life cases in teaching, this chapter provides a hands-on description of how to organise applied or practice-oriented courses in anthropology and related disciplines. On this basis, three interlinked arguments are put forward. First, case-based teaching organised around challenges posed by actors outside the university train the students in critical thinking and constructive application as two sides of the same coin. Second, by so doing, the students provide value to the collaborating actors and the wider society by challenging established perspectives and practices by way of proposing new ways of thinking, doing, and being. Third, and more broadly, this has particular subject effects as this form of teaching promotes an engaged yet critical kind of citizenship among the students.
