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International banks want their new hires to have liberal arts backgrounds.

The art of narrative economics requires humanities majors.

Rafael Campo, MD, combines medicine and poetry to have "two ways of knowing about the human experience."

Does Berkeley realize the value of its humanities programs as much as the rest of the world does?

You'll find liberal arts students in all types of positions in tech companies, from entry-level to management, and communications to software.

"Because technology is about people as much as things."

"All poetry should live within the individual and shout toward the collective."

Readers support learning more languages.

Creatives and humanists make up almost 10% of Microsoft's AI core team.

Why it's important for Americans to learn additional languages.

Philosophy's critical role in a successful investment career

A new study shows that liberal arts college grads are doing fine and seeing economic mobility -- and that much of what is said about graduates of these programs is not backed by evidence.

Here's why the liberal arts will rule the digital world.

The changing economy has created a greater need for liberal arts skills, according to study.

"Tackling today’s biggest social and technological challenges requires the ability to think critically about their human context, which is something that humanities graduates happen to be best trained to do."

"Becoming versed in the intricacies of a complex thing is itself a worthwhile skill."

"...students who want to commune with Kant and Keats shouldn’t be made to feel that they’re indulgent dilettantes throwing away all hope of a lucrative livelihood. They’re making a commitment to a major that has endured because its fruits are enduring."

"An emphasis on the humanities in medical school trains future doctors to become proficient in the social and cultural context of health care."

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study stresses the need for integrating STEM disciplines with arts and humanities.

"...the arts, sciences and humanities are all 'branches from the same tree.' They are mutually reinforcing. For that reason, we favor broad educational experiences that integrate the STEM disciplines with the arts and humanities, drawing on and fortifying the connections between them."

Check out blog posts written by Zoe Forest, a freshman from El Segundo, California, and the Townsend Center’s undergraduate humanities writer. She is spending Spring 2018 attending talks and panels, interviewing faculty and grad students, and generally soaking up the wealth of humanities programming at the Townsend Center and across campus. Throughout the process, she writes about what she has learned.

"All around the country, forward-leaning professors are breathing digital life into the ancient practice of interpreting art and culture."