Connecting the Humanities to Career Competencies

In order to attract students, many humanities programs are working to explain how certain academic disciplines can empower students to follow their passions while also finding success on the job market.

The solution isn’t only a matter of finding the right marketing tools or even connecting humanities to career competencies. It also requires understanding what students want and need in today’s educational environment.

Building a Thriving Humanities Program highlights how some successful humanities programs developed, what choices their leaders made, and what obstacles they overcame. With this report, you’ll learn about ways to create new majors and minors, transform general-education courses, and more concretely tie the humanities to job skills and careers.

Order your copy to:

• Better interpret and explain the data on humanities enrollments.

• Communicate how successful humanities programs have built student interest.

• Describe how humanities study contributes to student success.

• Translate skills learned in humanities courses into attributes employers seek.