December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
178 pages
4h 23m
English
Content preview from The Relevance of Humanities to the 21st Century Workplace
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If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing, which is stupid.1
—Alan Watts
Introduction
The lack of support to help humanities majors understand what is involved in terms of skills, knowledge, and experiences to launch a career and find a vocation in today’s dynamic global marketplace marks the next disconnect. Helping humanities majors comprehend how to launch a career or develop a vocation often takes a back seat to the holy trinity of institutional success: recruitment, retention, and graduation. These three drivers of ...