CONNECT YOUR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Following one’s “passion” in a time of financial crisis and a tough labor market may seem frivolous and even risky. Yet employers and HR directors often tell me that the thing they like about humanities majors is their passion for the subject matter. Even if humanities fields (medieval philosophy, renaissance poetry, 19th-century French art, etc.)…

This is the title of a recent article in the NY Daily News. More and more companies are rediscovering the value of a liberal arts education. If you’re a student in the College of Humanities, make sure you know precisely what skills are valued and learn how to talk about them in a way that…

In addition to providing reasons for studying the liberal arts, there is a long list of successful people whose undergraduate degree was in a liberal arts field. See here: http://hss.pages.tcnj.edu/school-resources/the-liberal-arts/

Students in vocational fields (engineering, business, finance, etc.) often think about general education courses, and especially humanities courses, as a check-list of useless hurdles to get past in order to graduate. Tuition-paying parents and career advisors under pressure from higher ups to get students to graduate quickly can often reinforce this view by discouraging students…

Several of the best careers for 2011 require skills developed in the Humanities. Curatorial work, translation/interpretation, and technical writing jobs are on the rise. This article explains why. http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2010/12/06/best-careers-2011-creative-and-service-jobs

If you’re looking for an writing/editing/research internship in DC or NYC, explore this opportunity at Slate. They’re looking for students studying culture and/or politics. More here: http://www.slate.com/id/2299133/

A program of United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program offers intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages.  Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) institutes provide fully-funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S.…