Open to the public. Registration required.

Training for a PhD in any humanities or arts discipline provides an exceptional foundation for a wide range of careers. Some of the skills acquired during that training are easily transferrable outside of academia, and yet those non-academic careers often require abilities not ordinarily gained in graduate school.  

Intended for graduate students at all levels, this open-ended seminar is designed to provide information and advice about career-building skills that can benefit anyone considering post-graduate opportunities outside the walls of academe.  

The seminar is led by Anthony J. Cascardi, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish. It builds on work funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and carried out at UC Berkeley under Cascardi during his ten-year term as dean of arts and humanities. Cascardi is also former director of the Townsend Center.