What to do with a Classics Degree
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A video from the Classics for All folks, showing the benefits of Latin (amongst other things) at the grade school level … perhaps it might inspire folks on this side of the pond: … the Classics for All website …
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Very interesting interview in Fast Company … Jessica Goldfin has some really good advice in this one for those with a Classics-related degree who are hitting the job market: As an undergraduate student of art and classical civilizations at Florida State University, Jessica Goldfin helped excavate ruins. Today, as special assistant to the president at…
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… or at least guys who like Classics and major social media? Check out this incipit of a piece from Bloomberg: In Russia, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces stiff competition for the role of number one news-making internet wunderkind. His name is Pavel Durov. Durov, 27, is the founder and CEO of VKontakte (“In Contact”),…
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This one’s been lurking in my email box for a while … tip o’ the pileus to Dr Stephen Glass (emeritus, Pitzer College) who sent this along fom The Princeton Review: Guide to College Majors: 2004 “A classics major offers the opportunity to explore the beliefs and achievements of antiquity, and to learn just how…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Rose Williams for alerting us to this piece in USA Today: When college-targeted publications feature articles on topics like the highest-paying college majors or the college majors that are most likely to land you a job, things do not always look too good for people studying the humanities. Humanities departments…
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