WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING FOR ARE PROACTIVE INDIVIDUALS WHO UNDERSTAND THE WORKPLACE AND CAN THINK CRITICALLY AND COMMUNICATE, AS WELL AS BE A TEAM PLAYER.
Angela Tsuei-Strause, executive director of the Vandiver Center for Career Development
ethical judgment, integrity, and intercultural skills that students need to thrive in today’s world. Angela Tsuei- Strause, executive director of the Vandiver Center for Career Development at Queens, said that employers indicate that they can teach specific skills on the job, but that they can’t teach critical thinking. “What they’re looking for are proactive individuals who understand the workplace and can think critically and communicate, as well as be a team player,” Tsuei- Strause explained. “What students acquire with a liberal arts education correlates with that perfectly.” Tough Shiraz didn’t major in business or finance, the transferrable skills she honed while getting a liberal arts education provided her a springboard for a variety of paths. Trough her chemistry degree she learned accuracy and precision, while art history taught her how to look at things from a broader perspective and identify trends. Siu Challons-Lipton, D. Phil., executive director
of the Art, Design and Music Department and the Carolyn G. and Sam H. McMahon Professor of Art History, said that liberal arts are those subjects or skills
that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a person to know in order to take part in an active civic life. She added that studying subjects like art history helps people understand the human past and its relationship with the present. Students begin making visual arguments, as they train the eye and brain in the skills of critical looking. And in our visual world filled with computers, tablets, televisions and phone screens, this is imperative. “One comes closer
to understanding diversity,
community and empathy,” said Challons-Lipton, adding that some medical schools are now incorporating art history into their curricula for these very reasons. “Describing an artwork prepares physicians to describe a medical situation, and it creates more empathy because they look at things in different ways.” Allison Morris ’16, ’18 has also found that to be
true in law. She initially graduated from Queens with a political science major and art history minor, thinking that she might be interested in law school. However, after working at a local law firm in an administrative
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