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Resources for Comparative Literature Majors

General Career Information

UCSB Department of English
A resource for graduate students in English.

Humanities - Careers
A general overview of potential careers for Humanities majors from St Mary of the Woods College.

MIT Careers Office
A list of skills and abilities of Humanities majors, as well as possible fields and occupational titles – all from MIT.

Skidmore College
One-stop shopping for info on the Humanities from Skidmore College.

Sellout
A resource page for graduate student in the Humanities considering careers outside of academia.

University of Calgary
A Canadian resource for careers in the Humanities.

Careers and the Humanities
From Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.

University Health Services
A comprehensive exploration of Humanities and Social Science careers from UC Berkeley.

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Internships

Arts Opportunities
Search for jobs and internships in the arts.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Offers a variety of summer internships.

San Francisco Chronicle
Summer internship program provides aspiring journalists with a diverse newsroom experience. Internships include reporting, photography, design, news graphics and copy editing positions.

The Washington Post
Offers twelve-week, paid reporting internships on the Metro, Financial, Sports and Style desks; copy editing internships on the Financial, Foreign, National and Metro desks; page and graphic design internships on the News Desk and in News Art; a photography internship on the Photo desk; and a writing internship in the Editorial Department.

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Graduate & Professional Schools

GradSchools.com
The most comprehensive source of graduate school information.

San Francisco State
Offers an M.A. in Comparative and World Literature.

UC Irvine
Offers a doctoral program in Comparative Literature with a choice of three different emphases.

UC Los Angeles
Also has a PhD program in Comparative Literature.

Stony Brook University
Iin the SUNY system, offers both M.A. and PhD programs in CompLit.

Carnegie Mellon
Offers both M.A. and PhD degrees in Literary and Cultural Studies.

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Professional Associations

American Society of Magazine Editors
Professional organization for editors of consumer magazines and business publications, which are edited, published and sold in the U.S.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Non-profit, educational association of journalism and mass communication faculty, administrators, students and media professionals.

American Translators Association
Learn more about the translation and interpreting professions.

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Job Listings

Jobs by Fields: Communication/Media
Skidmore College has compiled an impressive list of links to job listings for jobs in communications and media – a field often attractive to Humanities majors.

A Guide to Writing and Journalism Jobs
A site that claims to be “a collection of the best job resources for jobs in writing, journalism, and publishing”. They do have quite a few mega-sites included on their list.

NewsJobs Network
Has links to dozens of mega-sites for jobs having to do with writing.

Write Jobs
Is a specialty job board and career resource for journalism, media, publishing and writing professionals.

Writing Employment
Jobs for writers, editors, proofreaders, and more.

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UCSB Resources

UCSB Library Subject Homepage

Comparative Literature Departmental Web Page

Career Resource Room

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