Humanities Plus

Category: +Humanities

  • Study Literature First, Then Learn to Code

    A recent New York Times Op-Ed suggests a humanities background is just the thing for future software developers. Challenging the view that students interested in careers in software should learn to code at the expense of other priorities, Bradford Hipps makes the case for devoting the undergraduate years to liberal arts. Software, he argues, is “far more…

  • The Digital Convergence of the Sciences and Humanities

    Brown University professor Elias Muhanna offers an account of how a digital humanities project with a cross-disciplinary focus  altered his relationship to his work. He draws upon this experience to generalize about the role of digital scholarship in the future of the Humanities. Muhanna’s piece appeared in The New Yorker linked below.* Hacking the Humanities…

  • Impact of Study Abroad vs. Overseas Internship

    Excerpt: For students who hope to gain the most career impact from study abroad, results indicate that they should choose an internship as part of their curriculum. Remarkably, 70 percent of intern respondents reported that study abroad ignited interest in a career direction pursued after the experience, compared to 60 percent of non-intern respondents. In…

  • Canadian B-Schools Leading Out on Internationalization

    Excerpt: At Canadian universities, business schools are light-years ahead of the rest of the campus in raising their global profile. Intensive foreign-student-recruitment efforts, friendly Canadian immigration rules, mandatory study-abroad requirements, and, in some cases, the option to pursue programs in multiple languages have combined to pack a punch in recent years. More here: http://chronicle.com/article/In-Canada-Business-Schools/131388/

  • Why Study Fiction in Economic Hard Times? The Answer May Surprise You

    http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/director/publications/humanitiesvalue.pdf

  • Liberal Arts: Portal to Anywhere

    President Michael T. Benson of Southern Utah University argues for the economic and civilizational necessity of training today’s youth in the liberal arts, and he does this in an economic and cultural climate increasingly hostile to the humanities and other disciplines whose immediate monetary value is not obvious. Here are his key points: “Difficult economic…

  • Why Reading the News is Crucial

    Here is a point frequently made to me by employers: today’s students don’t know much about the world around them, they don’t read the news, they can’t connect the dots. Is this you? When I ask students on campus about this observation, many agree. They find the news boring or disturbing, they don’t have time…

  • Intern Overseas as a Volunteer

    AVSO, a large network of volunteers services, provides a variety of opportunities for students wishing to intern in Europe. See here: http://www.avso.org/links/avsolinks_avso.html

  • Choosing a Career by a Salary Chart is Shortsighted

    Consider these two facts: 1. 40% of all Yale students graduate in a humanities/social science discipline.  2. Among the Stanford Business School’s MBA graduates of 2011, 47% majored as an undergraduate in either the humanities or a social science. What’s going on here? What secret about the humanities are these Yale and Stanford students in on? Why…

  • Google Searching for Humanities Students

    Evidence keeps mounting that humanities students provide innovative perspectives to businesses and tech fields. A few days ago, Stanford News ran a story about Silicon Valley’s desire to hire humanities students. Here we see the giant of the industry leading the way… more here: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=416190&encCode=9283195121BC40932875JTBS737226611 Thanks to Jarom McDonald for the link.