{"621385":{"#nid":"621385","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Clone of humanTech Symposium Identifies Opportunities, Challenges for Humanities at Technological Universities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy Michael Pearson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHumanities scholars found both inspiration and shared challenges at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u0026rsquo;s (LMC) humanTech symposium, held April 19\u0026ndash;20, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Esymposium\u003C\/a\u003E was meant to focus the discussion about what it means to be a humanist at a technologically oriented university such as the Georgia Institute of Technology, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E, chair and professor in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELMC\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While our participants had work experience at large research institutions, small engineering oriented colleges, and traditional universities with strong science and technology sectors, it became clear very quickly that we didn\u0026rsquo;t need to switch codes to understand our most important opportunities. They were the same,\u0026ldquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Terms like innovation, interdisciplinarity, partnership, integration, and collaboration, were front and center among all presentations and responses.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPresentations and discussions also identified similar challenges, including funding disparities between the humanities and the STEM fields and a traditional view from both humanities\u0026nbsp;and STEM-based scholars that each group is part of a separate academic world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite such challenges, Paula M.\u0026nbsp;Krebs, executive director of the Modern Language Association, noted during her opening address to the symposium how many tech firms and even the Columbia University Medical School, which offers a program in \u0026ldquo;narrative medicine,\u0026rdquo; are embracing the skills provided by a humanities education and applying them to technical and scientific disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If those graduates are better doctors for studying the humanities, what would a better engineer who is fully engaged in the humanities look like?\u0026rdquo; Krebs asked.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs it happens, they might look something like many\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech students, who study or intern abroad at much higher levels than the national average and half of whom voluntarily choose to study a foreign language, compared to 8 percent nationally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/experts\/Mariel-Borowitz\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E, LMC, and the School of Modern Languages also are leading in the fields of language and cultural studies, as Krebs noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech itself is a leader in connecting language and education with career possibilities at the undergraduate and graduate levels,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;The graduate program in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gmc.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGlobal Media and Cultures\u003C\/a\u003E, for example, is the kind of program that makes clear the career value of language study.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat degree, a joint offering of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELMC\u003C\/a\u003E and Modern Languages, and also the Master of Science in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/ms-degrees\/ms-alis\u0022\u003EApplied Language and Intercultural Studies\u003C\/a\u003E in the School of Modern Languages, are both meant to give students rigorous training in communication and global leadership, preparing them for careers in international business, non-profits, media, social justice, and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther initiatives are under way at Georgia Tech to help prepare humanities students for interdisciplinary careers in a changing workforce.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELMC and Modern Languages also each have post-doctoral programs for recent humanities graduates. LMC\u0026rsquo;s Brittain Fellows program seeks Ph.D. graduates with an interest in \u0026ldquo;digital pedagogy and the cultural studies of science and technology,\u0026rdquo; while LMC\u0026rsquo;s Global Languages, Cultures, and Technologies program seeks to foster collaboration across languages, technologies, and global cultures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth schools, and faculty from across Ivan Allen College, also are actively engaged in a number of Vertically Integrated Research (VIP) research projects, meant to give undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in meaningful, often interdisciplinary, research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESuch program are the product of a spirit of \u0026ldquo;radical interdisciplinarity\u0026rdquo; among humanities scholars at Georgia Tech that has allowed such programs to flourish, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/stenport\u0022\u003EAnna Stenport\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair in the School of Modern Languages\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am very\u0026nbsp;happy and proud to be able to say that there is no crisis of the humanities at the Georgia Institute of Technology,\u0026rdquo; she told the symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Utz, the symposium was just the beginning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This symposium can only be a first step toward future additional conversations, and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, together with our partners, will take a lead role in continuing what we started this year,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother humanities-related symposium occurred April 25-27. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/agsc.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Atlanta Global Studies Symposium\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;focused on global, regional, and international studies and the United Nation\u0026rsquo;s Sustainable Development Goals. Discussion centered on collaboration among institutions of higher education, the public and the community, and the K-12 sector in the Atlanta region and beyond through education, research, and outreach.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHumanities scholars found both inspiration and shared challenges at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u0026rsquo;s (LMC) humanTech symposium, held April 19\u0026ndash;20, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Paula M. 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