College to Career: How Faculty Can Help Students Translate Their Humanities Education
Laura L. Behling, PhD
Challenges to the utility of Humanities education have become louder and more frequent. The declining number of Humanities majors and the increasing number of applied or professional majors, only reinforces what some critics consider the “useless Humanities degree”, disciplines with little to recommend it in terms of workforce-ready skills. Career services on college campuses have expertise to help students into their post-graduate lives, but faculty also have a crucial opportunity in their cour