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Study Humanities; Get a Job

October 18, 2017February 7, 2019

In Pacific Standard, Noah Berlatsky and Ilana Gershon wrote a great piece about how humanities supports you getting a job! The skills you learn in the humanities are exactly the skills you use in a job search. The humanities teach students to understand the different rules and expectations that govern different genres, to examine social … Continue ReadingStudy Humanities; Get a Job

Medievalists in Public! (Writing about the Humanities)

November 6, 2015February 7, 2019

Yesterday at The Conversation, Cecilia Gaposhkin, a medieval historian at Dartmouth, wrote a piece arguing that STEM are not distinct or in competition with the liberal arts. They are the same thing. The idea that STEM is something separate and different than the liberal arts is damaging to both the sciences and their sister disciplines … Continue ReadingMedievalists in Public! (Writing about the Humanities)