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Can’t Find an Internship? Here’s How to Create One
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2010/05/create_your_own_internship.html
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Why You Need the Humanities to Combat the “Big Shaggy”
Conservative columnist David Brooks argues for the necessity of studying the humanities for understanding the vicissitudes and seeming irrationality of human behavior. Great books (novels, plays, philosophical treatises) explore “emotional veins” of human existence in ways that other “scientific” disciplines have difficulty explaining. He cites several recent examples of world-historical events that cannot be fully…
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U.S. Secretary of Education Touts the Study of Foreign Language and Culture
Read her speech here: http://www2.ed.gov/news/speeches/2010/05/05262010.html
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Director of International Management at U Penn Explains Why Studying Language is Crucial
Excerpt: For starters, research indicates that effective language instruction must be culturally grounded. Acquiring a language involves learning the culture or cultures intimately associated with it. Although business students, for example, can operate in English in a large number of countries, a deeper understanding of the cultures there would enhance their performance as employees or…
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Another Article on the Value of the Humanities
read here: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Unintended-Value-of-the/65619/
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New York Times on What to do with a Humanities Major
In spite of some bad news (for example, announcing the closure of some classics and philosophy departments around the US), this article exposes the importance of the humanities to the marketplace. The key, the author argues toward the end of the piece, is to know what skills are valued, develop them to their fullest, and…
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Deseret News Features Volunteer Opportunities in Utah
Want to engage in humanitarian work? Here are several possibilities to consider: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700033355/Volunteer-opportunities-abound-in-Utah.html?s_cid=rss-30
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State Department Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2011 Internships
The 2011 Spring Student Internship Program is now accepting applications. Click here (http://careers.state.gov/students/programs.html#SIP) for more information and to start the online application process. Please note that the deadline to submit completed applications is July 01, 2010. You must be a U.S. Citizen and a student (a full- or part-time continuing college or university junior, or graduate student – including graduating seniors…
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A National Crisis: The Decline of Leadership
Here’s an excerpt from an excellent article on the decline of leadership skills in American institutions by William Deresiewicz. It’s from a graduation lecture given at Westpoint and reprinted in the current volume of The American Scholar: “We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations…
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10 Ways to Market your Humanities Degree
The market values the liberal arts. It’s just that you need to know how to translate your skills into ways that the market will readily understand them. More: http://www.quintcareers.com/marketing_liberal-arts_degrees.html
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