Many students (and parents) ask what they will do with a degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. What is more important to consider are the skills that students acquire in the academic environment which are critical to career preparation. What follows are six broad skill clusters which show you how you can link the academic disciplines of the humanities to many occupations.
The search for specific knowledge, from controlled laboratory experimentation to detective work, from scholarly endeavors to investigative journalism.
The arrangement and retrieval of data and knowledge, from cataloguing to accounting, from computer programming to inventory control.
The exchange, transmission, and expression of knowledge and ideas, from sales to film news writing to illustrating, from teaching to performing.
The attention to physical, mental, or social needs of people, from medicine to social work, from labor relations to play therapy.
The direction and guidance of a group in the completion of tasks and the attainment of goals, from politician to minister, from industrialist to school principal.
The conceptualization of the future and description of a process for creating it, from the city planner to artist, proposal writer to architect.
