Why Major in Literature?—–What We Say to Our Students

PMLA ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Job Market ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Culture

What better time could there be to major in literature than now? The corpus of texts available, thanks to translation, is that of the world. The boundaries of the literary are allinclusive, embracing high and low culture. Reading lists are always a surprise. You can be a literature major and work with film, with computer-generated texts and hypertexts. You can cross over into creative writing and communications. The skills you will learn are easily transferable and will enable you to be a candidate in a variety of areas when you enter the job market, especially if you have had an internship. Humanities majors are more likely to attain leadership positions during their careers than are students in narrow technical fields. A literature major can even be combined with premed and prelaw if you are thinking about graduate school.

Down to the bone

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Gillian Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
South African ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Australopithecus Africanus ◽  
Early Hominids ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Legacies

Eminent individuals have made significant contributions to their fields that have impacted on fundamental knowledge and practices around the world, a description that aptly describes the world-known South African paleoanthropologist and scientist, Professor Phillip Tobias. This article presents evidence from his early childhood and schooling that demonstrated his creative writing, extensive independent study, advanced achievement, autonomous research and leadership positions that characterized his range of gifted abilities. It also describes characteristics typical of the family backgrounds of research on eminent individuals and core aspects of his personality, including his humor and humility. As a core scientist who sought to uncover fossil evidence for human evolution, he was instrumental in early studies of Khoisan and Tonga ethnic communities, investigations and documentation of Australopithecus africanus and early hominids. His academic and cultural legacies are depicted in his wide interests: his love of creative writing, teaching, and research and the search for truth and social justice.

Between High Culture and Low Culture; and also The Difference Between Popular Culture and Folk Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Kunal Debnath
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Common People ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Low Culture

High culture is a collection of ideologies, beliefs, thoughts, trends, practices and works-- intellectual or creative-- that is intended for refined, cultured and educated elite people. Low culture is the culture of the common people and the mass. Popular culture is something that is always, most importantly, related to everyday average people and their experiences of the world; it is urban, changing and consumeristic in nature. Folk culture is the culture of preindustrial (premarket, precommodity) communities.

What If It Wasn’t Kato Who Raped Diana? Representing the Yearning for Justice in As I Stood Dead Before the World: Creative Writing from Luzira Prison (2018)

Imbizo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danson Sylvester Kahyana
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Innocent People ◽  
Creative Writers ◽  
The World

The article examines how selected works in Uganda’s first anthology of prison-authored work, As I Stood Dead before the World: Creative Writing from Luzira Prison (2018), handle one of the issues of paramount importance to inmates and their families: the possibility that convictions in courts of law are not foolproof since judicial officers are human beings and therefore susceptible to error. Drawing from four examples: two poems (Jackson O’s “Letter to Aber” and Sebuuma Gadafi’s “Twenty-Years”), one short story (Rachael Pearl Orishaba’s “A Secret”), and one short play (Jennifer Janette’s “What If It Wasn’t Kato?”), I show how different inmates imagine situations where judicial officers (prosecutors and magistrates/judges) make errors of judgement that see innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit. The article closely reads the four selected pieces with the objective of investigating how creative writers can help judicial officers realise how important it is to turn every proverbial stone before a conviction is made.

The World. Challenges of the Global Crisis. Germany

2014 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
I. Semenenko ◽  
G. Irishin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Economy Model ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Market ◽  
The Eu

The economic crisis of 2008–2009 highlighted new problems in the development of the German social market economy model and brought to the forefront the factors of its resilience that have ensured Germany’s leadership positions in the EU. Changes in economic policy have affected in the first place the energy and the financial sectors. Shifts in the political landscape have led to the appearance of new political parties. These changes have affected the results of the 2013 elections, the liberal democrats failure to enter the Bundestag has made the winner – CDU – seek new coalition partners.

Navigating the job market with a congenital heart condition

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Hannah Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Job Market ◽  
The World ◽  
Heart Condition

In this month's patient story, Hannah Phillips contemplates the difficulties of entering the world of work with a congenital heart condition and outlines how treatment teams can better prepare patients for this process.

scholarly journals Deep solidarity: Broadening the basis of transformation

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joerg Rieger ◽  
Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Job Market ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
New Models ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Race Ethnicity

Across the globe, conditions of labour are worsening, providing both challenges and opportunities. As labour is one of the places where the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class is always at work, new models of resistance are created here as well. Deep solidarity describes what happens when the 99% who have to work for a living (including people who are excluded from the job market) realise what they have in common, in order to employ their differences productively in the struggle. In this article, a theologian and a labour and community organiser work together showing how the Abrahamic religious traditions and developments in the world of labour help us to shape deeper forms of solidarity.

scholarly journals JOB HUNTING ONLINE AND KNOWLEDGE EVALUATION OF THE EMPLOYEES IN THE WORLD

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-180
Author(s):  
Giedrė Rimkevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
World Knowledge ◽  
Job Market ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Knowledge Evaluation

In this article the possibilities of finding the job by net are displayed. In today's world job hunting on‐line becomes more and more popular. The majority of Internet sites that can be used for job hunting is classified in thematic categories. Brainbench is the most authoritative system of the world that values skills of employees of different fields on‐line. Brainbench, the technologies of the world knowledge assessing system tests which Lithuanian market of job search ‐supply cannot offer, are being analyzed. The conclusions about the advantages and shortcommings of Brainbench system are given about the importance and significance of Brainbench certificates in job market.

scholarly journals Crescent on the Island of Gods, Traces of Islamic Village in Kusamba-Bali

Al-Albab ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Farninda Aditya
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The World ◽  
Cross Cultural Studies

I Gde Parimartha, Ida Bagus Gde Putra, Luh Pt.Kusuma Ririen. 2012. Bulan Sabit di Pulau Dewata, Jejak Kampung Islam Kusamba-Bali. Yogyakarta: Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) Graduate School, Gadjah Mada University YogyakartaBali, a beautiful island well known all over the world, fascinates many visitors from various countries and has a religious identity as its nickname reflects, the Island of the Gods. Although famous as a Hindu land, Bali has an Islamic Village, where Muslims can live side by side with Balinese Hindus. In view of the events of the Bali Bombing, in 2002 in Kuta and 2005 in Jimbaran, of course, there have been social and religious tensions between these two faiths. The tragedy has indeed left a change of attitude that is a strengthening of political identity of the Balinese-ness. This situation is presented in a book entitled, Bulan Sabit di Pulau Dewata, Jejak Kampung Islam Kusamba-Bali (Crescent on the Island of Gods, Traces of Islamic Village in Kusamba-Bali).

Praxiscing Anthropology with Native American Tribes and Schools

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Nan Little
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
News Article ◽  
Ethical Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Native American Tribes

In an April 2002 "Anthropology News" article, "Toward a Mature Anthropology", Noel Chrisman advocates linking "praxis (achieving understanding through action within a political and ethical context)" and "theoria (achieving understanding through a more detached apprehension of the world)" as a way to make anthropology a richer discipline (p. 4). Although I had never heard Noel express it quite that way, certainly that was what he was trying to instill in me during graduate school.

“We are here to help you”: understanding the role of careers and employability services in UK universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Fotiadou
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
The World

Abstract This paper examines the language used by careers services in UK universities. Using a combination of critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics methods and tools, the analysis of 2.6 million words collected from 58 UK university websites shows that the services highlight the quantity and variety of resources and assistance offered to Higher Education (HE) students. In addition, the close analysis of linguistic data brings to light a commonly used semantic pattern where the services act as the enablers of the students’ self-beneficiary actions. The main idea communicated in these webpages is that if HE students want to succeed in the graduate job market they need to prepare for the world of work, follow instructions and develop their employability. This course of action is presented by UK universities as natural or common sense. The interpretation and evaluation of linguistic patterns that emerge from the corpus-based analysis challenges the notion of employability and its association with the idea of ‘empowering’ young people to successfully compete in the graduate job market.

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