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What are you going to do with THAT? An English Student's Guide to Life after School

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Název: What are you going to do with THAT? An English Student's Guide to Life after School
Autoři: O'Donnell, Daniel, Department of English, University of Lethbridge
Informace o vydavateli: Department of English, University of Lethbridge, 2025.
Rok vydání: 2025
Témata: Humanities, Careers, Post-secondary education, FOS: Humanities
Popis: A research-based response to the myth of the unemployed English major. While English majors -- like many majors in the Humanities -- often take slightly longer than majors in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) to get their careers started and start building income post-graduation, about a decade after graduation they are earning on average about the same as many of their STEM peers. And from that point on, the skills they have learned specifically in English classes about communication, understanding complex texts, and building arguments in the absence of certainty become more and more valuable. In the case of graduates from the University of Lethbridge, the stereotype of the English-major Barista is even less true: two years out from graduation, the great majority of graduates of English at the University of Lethbridge regularly report both that they are working (between 80% and 90% depending on the year) and that both the skills (95% +) and the content (85% +) they studied are relevant or very relevant to their daily lives. This is a much higher percentage than in many other programs, even in the Humanities.
Druh dokumentu: Report
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13626068
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16422694
Rights: CC BY
Přístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....d0eae587b068dce996a973bf99fa3122
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:A research-based response to the myth of the unemployed English major. While English majors -- like many majors in the Humanities -- often take slightly longer than majors in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) to get their careers started and start building income post-graduation, about a decade after graduation they are earning on average about the same as many of their STEM peers. And from that point on, the skills they have learned specifically in English classes about communication, understanding complex texts, and building arguments in the absence of certainty become more and more valuable. In the case of graduates from the University of Lethbridge, the stereotype of the English-major Barista is even less true: two years out from graduation, the great majority of graduates of English at the University of Lethbridge regularly report both that they are working (between 80% and 90% depending on the year) and that both the skills (95% +) and the content (85% +) they studied are relevant or very relevant to their daily lives. This is a much higher percentage than in many other programs, even in the Humanities.
DOI:10.5281/zenodo.13626068