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Humanities EXCEL internship applications are now open through Sunday, October 18th! Work 10 hours/week with off-campus organizations and earn $20/hour. Landing one of these internships unlocks a supportive cohort program where you’ll grow as a young professional and reflect on your experiential learning. This program is open to students with a major or minor in the Humanities Division. Click on the link in bio to apply today! 📸 Image Descriptions: 1. Humanities EXCEL intern representing United Way of Santa Cruz County at an event beneath the headline “Our Paid Internships Are Hiring.” 2. A vocalist performs with an orchestra at The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music above a photo of a Santa Cruz Works event, alongside text explaining that interns earn $20 per hour for 10 hours per week while building professional experience. 3. A green panel over a downtown Santa Cruz street scene lists 11 organizations offering 2027 Humanities EXCEL internships, including arts, environmental, media, library, and community organizations. 4. Four smiling United Way interns pose together above text stating that EXCEL internships run January through June, with a photo of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center below. 5. Photos of Santa Clara County hills and the San Lorenzo Valley Museum accompany text explaining that interns join a cohort of more than 50 Humanities students working with community partner organizations. A young woman smiling while wearing a United Way of Santa Cruz County t-shirt at a community event. by @ucschumanities
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Applications are now open for Humanities EXPLORE research fellowships through Sunday, October 18th! Work 10 hours/week with a UCSC faculty member on their academic research and earn $20/hour. Faculty projects come from History, Languages and Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, Literature, THI, Philosophy, and Writing Programs. Landing one of these positions unlocks a supportive cohort program where you’ll grow as a young professional and reflect on your experiential learning. This program is open to students with a major or minor in the Humanities Division. Click on the link in bio to apply today! 📸 Image Description: Professor Alice Yang and a researcher named Julieta working with oral history material on a laptop, above the headline “The Humanities EXPLORE Program is Hiring Paid Researchers. 📸 Image Description: The @wiith.ucsc Saaritaan group smiles with a map of the Philippines above a stage photo of a Santa Cruz Shakespeare play, alongside text explaining that research students earn $20 per hour for 10 hours a week with a faculty member while building research experience. Photo Credit: Watsonville is in the Heart EXPLORE Team and Shakespeare Santa Cruz 📸 Image Description: A blue panel over a background photo of the Humanities courtyard lists seven faculty projects offering 2027 Humanities EXPLORE research positions involving bilingualism, Shakespeare, philosophy, linguistics, and history. 📸 Image Description: Professor Delgado poses with her undergraduate researchers Phoebe, Andre and Sofi at an archival library in Los Angeles, and below are four EXPLORE student researchers working together on a project. Between the photos is a headline reading “Researchers become part of a cohort program with 65+ Humanities students working with faculty from diverse humanities disciplines. Photo Credit: BORDER FUTURES EXPLORE Team and Happiness Project EXPLORE team. A faculty member behind a student working on a laptop wearing headphones. by @ucschumanities
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Humanities degrees open doors. If you’re considering or currently studying the Humanities, you may have had someone ask: “What are you going to do with that?” Check out our brand new page, What Can I Do with My Humanities Degree?, for some inspiring answers. 🎥 Watch five alumni share a taste of the many different paths a humanities-powered career can take 🔎 See more alumni spotlights 👀 View some common career pathways ✏️ And learn more about our Experiential Learning programs and Career Engagement opportunities. Studying the Humanities prepares you for fulfilling work and a fulfilling life. A better question might be: “What can’t you do with a Humanities degree?” Link in our linktree! by @ucschumanities
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Congratulations to our new 26-27 Humanities EXPLORE cohort!! These students were selected as paid undergraduate researchers who support a Humanities faculty member with their academic research project. Humanities EXPLORE Fellows engage in all types of research, ranging from public history projects, to creating local ethnic studies archives, using EEG machines to record electrical activity in the brain, pursuing philosophical questions, and working with archival materials. We’re excited to see where everyone’s research takes them this year! 📸 Image Description: A photo collage of some students in the Humanities 26-27 EXPLORE Cohort titled “Meet the Humanities EXPLORE Fellows 2026-27” featuring Laaila, Lena, Hailee, Peyton, Lillian, Kaya, Lucas, Haylee, Fatima, Evan, Alan, Mila, Jonathan, Joselyn, Peton, and Malia (pictured from left to right, starting at the top). 📸 Image Description: Photos of Humanities 26-27 EXPLORE Fellows Porter, Julieta, Zen, Aldrine, Natalia, Lila, Advika, Hannah, Amara, Theo, Grace, Evelyn, and Kali (pictured from left to right, starting at the top). A collage of photos of 16 EXPLORE Fellows by @ucschumanities
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This summer ten students took part in a Japanese immersion program featuring hands-on cultural, artistic, and linguistic learning across Japan. To get a unique behind-the-scenes look at their experience, we sent them with film cameras! They took some amazing photos 🙊💌 The students took JAPN 111 Japanese Arts and Beyond last spring, and they had the opportunity to explore the country alongside UCSC’s Assistant Professor and Japanese Language Program Coordinator Saori Hoshi. They visited top institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and the Yokohama Museum of Art and were able to attend special lectures at the Tokyo University of the Arts hosted by Professors Hikaru Fujii and Ryohei Kan. Where would you like to go explore and study? 💭 📸 Image Descriptions: 1. Two film photos of students posing together with another picture of a traditional Japanese thatched structure overlaid on top. 2. A film photo of a traditional Japanese thatched structure with two overlaid film photos of students posing at a restaurant. 3. A film photo of a 7/11 in Japan with three photos overlaid:one of the students all together posing, one of a student posing in front of a building, and one of the students walking together. 4. A film photo selfie of students sitting together with an image overlaid of two students hugging in front of a house Photos of students posing together with a picture of a structure. taken in Japan by @ucschumanities
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We developed a brand new summer opportunity called the Summer Humanities EXCEL program. Students have a chance to do paid internships over the summer in Los Angeles County. 20% of our students are from LA so we want to make it easier for our students to get internship experience in their home communities. We are proud of our first group of 13 students and are excited to share some of their behind-the-scenes pictures and quotes 🥹🫰Are you from the LA Area? What nonprofit orgs would you want to intern with next summer? 📸 Image Description: Cover image reads, “Summer Humanities EXCEL Program in LA” showing an intern student with their 826LA mentor 826 LA: “The most rewarding part was knowing that I was aiding in promoting literacy to youth in Los Angeles and connecting with a community of people that were so passionate about it.” - Andrew P, Community Engagement Intern — 826LA “Through this internship, I became more confident in my decision-making, and it allowed me to be more proactive with the students I worked with.” -Alondra A, Workshops Intern — 826LA ““Being a CRES major has taught me a lot about social systems, capitalist systems, and practices that benefit/don’t benefit the community. Interning with 826LA has given me the opportunity to think critically about the work I do, how it impacts my team, how it impacts the community, and how it impacts the children we serve.” — Jaya C, Community Engagement Intern — 826LA 📸 Image Description: A collage of images for 826LA, showing two students tabling with an overlay of the 826 crew underneath and a sticker that says 826LA overlaid. Autry Museum of the American West: “It’s really fun to know that someday, hopefully, the general public will be reading the things that I wrote and developed over the summer.” - Momoko N, Exhibition Development Intern — Autry Museum 📸 Image Description: Image of an intern smiling and gesturing at their work at the Autry Museum and an image beside it of the intern browsing through a closet, the background image is of the entrance to the Autry Museum, it reads, “Autry Museum of the American West.” Los Angeles Review of Books: “After hearing so many talented and succe Cover image reads, “Summer 2026 Humanities EXCEL Program in LA” with an image of a student and their mentor. by @ucschumanities
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Congratulations to our 26-27 Humanities EXCEL Cohort!! These students hold paid internships with off-campus partners, and meet together to set professional goals and reflect on how their humanities coursework connects to the work they’re doing out in the community. Humanities EXCEL Fellows hold all types of positions, ranging from communications, to community engagement, archival cataloging, educational programming, and exhibition development, and fundraising. We’re excited to have 30 partnering organizations in the program this year! You can browse where these students work in our Linktree! 📸 Image Description: Headshots of Humanities 26-27 EXCEL Fellows Rhea, Madelynn, Kate, Kaci, Shoshana, Hannah, Naomi, Danielle, Ava, Cleo, Cameron, and Selah 📸 Image Description: Headshots of Humanities 26-27 EXCEL Fellows Ella, Jadyn, Anqi, Silas, Aamir, Ava, Isabelle, Cassandra, Holiday, Maggie, Isabella, and Ava 📸 Image Description: Headshots of Humanities 26-27 EXCEL Fellows Brianna, Lynnette, Mishel, Abiagael, Iris, Cassandra, Carly, Sanvi, Zoe, Emily, Samaiah, and Vienna Headshots of Humanities 26-27 EXCEL Fellows Rhea, Madelynn, Kate, Kaci, Shoshana, Hannah, Naomi, Danielle, Ava, Cleo, Cameron, and Selah by @ucschumanities
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This summer UC Santa Cruz student Rhea Vakil interned in the Fowler's curatorial department as part of the UCSC Summer Humanities EXCEL internship program. Rhea spent the summer compiling and organizing research for a future exhibition, cataloging more than 300 groups of objects and narrowing them into a workable framework of roughly 80 groups. Senior curator of African arts and manager of curatorial affairs Erica P. Jones praised her work: “Rhea, in 10 weeks, took care of a project that has been on my mind for years. This is no small feat.” Read more at the link in bio. by @ucschumanities
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Happy Filipino American History Month! 🇵🇭 This summer, an intergenerational team from UC Santa Cruz’s Watsonville is in the Heart project, the Tobera Project and Pangasinan Polytechnic College traveled to the northern Philippines to record oral histories and reconnect elders with overseas relatives. Through the Saritaan project at The Humanities Institute, researchers digitized family photos and documents across Pangasinan province to trace migration roots back to California’s Pajaro Valley. Celebrate these powerful stories and transnational connections with us at the Fifth Annual Filipino American History Month Festival this Saturday, October 3, 2026 from 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM in Watsonville. Come support and honor the vibrant history connecting our communities across the Pacific. More information at the link in bio. 📸 Image descriptions. Photos by UCSC Sociology Professor Steve McKay: 1- UCSC Humanities EXPLORE Fellow Jamie Dy wearing a safety helmet and harness while zip-lining over green hills and ocean. 2- PPC Fellow Zoren Franco standing next to a large digital screen with text that reads: “did they migrated?” 3- Three people (from left to right: Maia Mislang, Dan Fallorina, and Jamie Dy) from the Saritaan research team smiling at a table with halo-halo desserts. 4- Top: A group of researchers smiling at the camera on a slanted grassy hilltop at Daang Kalikasan in Mangatarem, Pangasinan, the Philippines. Bottom: A group of people from the Saritaan research team smiling at the camera behind a table with the USA and Philippines flags. Text reads: “Federation of Senior Citizens Associations of the Philippines, Mangatarem Chapter, Welcome Senior Citizens Center, Bayan Ng Mangatarem, Pangasinan” 5- PPC undergraduate fellow Carjoseph De Guzman and community members from Binalonan in the Philippines looking at historical photos and materials displayed on a table. (Image descriptions continued in comments) UCSC Humanities EXPLORE Fellow Jamie Dy wearing a safety helmet and harness while zip-lining over green hills and ocean. by @ucschumanities
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15 days ago
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Our 2026 CMENA Arabic Language Fellows had a transformative summer studying Arabic, learning about Tunisian cultures, and enjoying the beauty of North Africa. Aisha Lemseffer (Undergraduate student, Legal Studies and Spanish) and Jonas Araujo (PhD student, History) spent three months atin Taa Marbouta in La Marsa, Tunisia. Aisha shares “Tunisia was an incredible experience. I learned a lot of Fusha Arabic at Taa Marbouta, while also picking up quite a bit of the Tunisian dialect through everyday conversations and life outside the classroom. I lived with a large Tunisian family, which gave me opportunities to practice Arabic, learn Tunisian cooking, and practice Darbouka drumming.” Jonas reflects “Life here has been so exciting; it's been one of the most enriching experiences of my life so far. I got to meet a Stambeli musician. Stambeli is an Afro-Tunisian musical and religious genre similar to Candomblé in Brazil. So, one of my future plans is to connect this to my research, which will make Arabic even more important.” 📸 Image descriptions: 1. Photo of Aisha Lemseffer standing in front of a historic site in Tunisia. 2. Top image: photo of historic villages and a cat meandering the empty site taken by Aisha. Bottom image: photo of a beach, picturing a rocky cliff and aquamarine water lapping on the shore taken by Aisha. 3. Photo of an eclectic market filled with colorful hand-made goods taken by Aisha. 4. Photo of Jonas Araujo sitting on a tree stump with a walking stick in one hand in a forest. 5. Photo of Jonas sitting and enjoying the view of the landscape. taken in Tunis, Tunisia by @ucschumanities
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16 days ago
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Last week during Cornucopia, we asked students to give us ONE word to describe the Humanities. They came through! Each student came up with a unique word to describe just how wonderful the Humanities are. We had a blast meeting them all and getting to know all of these slugs! 🎉 What’s your one word? 🤔 📹 Video Description: This post shows students walking around during Cornucopia. The screen reads, “We asked students to give us one word to describe the humanities,” followed by, “this is what they said.” The video is a compilation of students saying their words with the word captioned on the screen: Exploration, inspiring, important, expression, meaning, love, community, cool, creativity, empathy, progress, transformation, preservation, and life. by @ucschumanities
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