The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $35,000 Humanities Connections planning grant to an interdisciplinary project between the School of Languages and Cultures and the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) at Purdue University.
The “Integrating the Humanities and Global Engineering” project aims to further integrate language and cultural training into undergraduate global engineering students’ curriculum, thereby better preparing them for experiences abroad and in the global workforce. This will expand upon the training already in place for information technology vs computer science, who study abroad and participate in international internships as part of their course of study.
“All GEARE students study languages already, in preparation for their internships abroad. Our hope with this curricular development project is that students will view the study of languages as much more than just a tool to help them advance their global engineering careers,” said Jen William, head of the School of Languages and Cultures and a member of the project’s planning committee. “We anticipate that with an increased focus on culture, history, human relationships, intercultural understanding and communication, students will better understand how the humanities are inherently essential and indispensable to what they do with engineering and technology.”
The “Integrating the Humanities and Global Engineering” project aims to further integrate language and cultural training into undergraduate global engineering students’ curriculum, thereby better preparing them for experiences abroad and in the global workforce. This will expand upon the training already in place for information technology vs computer science, who study abroad and participate in international internships as part of their course of study.
“All GEARE students study languages already, in preparation for their internships abroad. Our hope with this curricular development project is that students will view the study of languages as much more than just a tool to help them advance their global engineering careers,” said Jen William, head of the School of Languages and Cultures and a member of the project’s planning committee. “We anticipate that with an increased focus on culture, history, human relationships, intercultural understanding and communication, students will better understand how the humanities are inherently essential and indispensable to what they do with engineering and technology.”
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