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Being launched in phases, the Berkeley Discovery Initiative aims to quickly draw students eager for a discovery experience into a rich ecosystem of campus resources and support.

We welcome Kevin Michael Smith to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Now an art collector and exhibition curator, [Alan] Templeton recently gifted UC Berkeley’s Art History/Classics Library an endowment for its fine arts collection, allowing the library to support journeys to other worlds and perspectives for decades to come.

"Critical thinking, on the other hand, is a permanent asset. A knowledge of history is a permanent asset. Skill in a language is a permanent asset. The liberal arts are the edge that students are looking for, the best foundation for a successful career in the finance industry."

How the Arts & Humanities are providing med students with critical communication skills.

Liberal Arts hiring is set to shoot up in 2020.

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.