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How can humanities courses and majors help students develop the kinds of durable skills--communication, collaboration, adaptability, and more--that employers want?

Today on the podcast, I talk to three University of Kentucky faculty about a program at UK called “Transdisciplinary Educational Approaches to Advance Kentucky,” or TEK for short. TEK helps faculty design courses that help students build those durable skills. One of those courses is called Humanities in Action, and one of the goals of the course is to help students see the ways that studying the humanities can build those durable skills—and help them get quality jobs, in or outside of the humanities.

Today’s guests are: Chelsea Brislin, course lead for Humanities in Action and associate director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities at UK. Shawna Felkins is a senior faculty consultant at the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CETL) at UK and community coordinator for the TEK Faculty Fellows program. And Jennifer Osterhage is director of TEK and associate professor of biology.

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Chelsea Brislin's faculty page

Shawna Felkins on LinkedIn

Jennifer Osterhage's faculty page

Transdisciplinary Educational Approaches to Advance Kentucky (TEK)

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