The Career Diversity Workshop is an intensive two-week career diversity exploration for twenty PhD students in the humanities. The workshop provides participants with career exploration tools including values discernment, informational interviewing experience, and job document preparation that prepare them for a variety of career paths, both in and beyond the academy.
Hosted in 2023 by the University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, the HWW Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop is an intensive, student-centered career exploration program of values discernment and practical preparation for jobs in a variety of sectors, both beyond and within the academy. HWW's cohort-based approach emphasizes student agency while giving attendees space to reflect on their professional journey. Workshop sessions intentionally lay foundations for the fellows as they do the real-time work of discerning personal career values, building community within their cohort, making professional contacts, and researching potential career paths. Participants will learn how to leverage their skills and humanities training towards careers in the private sector, the nonprofit world, arts administration, public media and many other fields.
The very concept of “humanities without walls” commits us to the work of social justice in the context of career diversity programming, and we work to create sessions which help us grapple with the long history of inequities based on race, indigeneity, gender, and class.
In summer 2023, the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts will host HWW’s annual Career Diversity Summer Workshop for doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Minneapolis, Minnesota will serve as the primary location for workshop activities. The workshop is set to take place during a two-week period in July 2023 (July 17-28th).