Abstract
Graduates from humanities disciplines are often perceived as having more ambiguous (or at least less-defined) career paths compared with those graduating from vocational subjects, such as law or medicine. Having a more open avenue offers a range of career opportunities, including branching out and setting up a business, or becoming self-employed, either through choice, necessity, or fortune. Those disciplines collaborating in this project (Archaeology, Classics, Languages, Linguistics, English, Ancient History and Art History) were thought to be especially exposed to such situations. We therefore decided to conduct a small-scale study of enterprising humanities graduates, determining the circumstances and motivations leading to them embarking on careers. Significantly, we wanted to investigate graduates’ perceptions of the skills they had gained through their university degrees, asking them to reflect on their experiences and to identify any areas where they believed they would have benefited from additional support during their degree programmes. Public
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781905788439 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2007 |