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Percentage of Humanities Departments Offering or Requiring Occupationally Oriented Activities for Undergraduate Students, by Activity, Academic Year 2011–12

* Includes job fairs geared to the interests of the department’s majors.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions, Table 20, p. 29 (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.
The question on the HDS-2 that inquired about the occupationally oriented activities offered or required by departments: (28) Below is a list of activities intended to prepare students in doctoral programs in in your department or program for non-academic employment. Please indicate which of these activities your department or program (in any of its programs) offers, either on its own or jointly with the institution’s career services unit in academic year 2011–2012 (including the 2012 summer term).

Occupationally-oriented presentations by employers, employees, or alumni (includes job fairs geared to the interests of your department’s or program’s majors)
Activity is not offered
Activity is offered
Activity is required

An internship in an employment setting
Activity is not offered
Activity is offered
Activity is required

Occupationally-oriented coursework or workshops (credit or non-credit)
Activity is not offered
Activity is offered
Activity is required
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