“Workplace Readiness for Social Science Majors” is a fully online career readiness workshop designed for social science majors in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Professor Kathleen McIntyre and Emma Hayes ‘22 on RI Black Women’s Suffrage History
Professor Kathleen McIntyre teaches a course on Give me Suffrage: Voting Rights in the Americas. With her students, she is writing biographical sketches of twelve Providence Black suffragists from the early 1900s. Once finished, the sketches will be published in the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S.
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Assistant professor of computer science, Sarah Brown, is interested in adapting machine learning algorithms and the systems they are embedded in to prevent Artificial Intelligence from reinforcing patterns of discrimination.
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Diego Guevara ’16, who graduated from the URI Theatre program with a concentration in acting, credits his time at URI as a transformative experience. The conservatory-style program focuses on each student’s needs, he says.
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Our Graduate School of Library and Information Studies launched a master’s track focused on “Information Equity, Diverse Communities, and Critical Librarianship.” This spring, the program is bringing conversations on race, gender, sexuality, class and information equality to the public forum by hosting a webinar series featuring national library and information science scholars.
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Hope McKinney ’21 discusses how going back to college in her twenties made her appreciate education more, and how an internship solidified her passion for journalism.
Continue reading "Learning with Perspective: Hope McKinney ’21 on Going Back to School in her Twenties"Danni Pascuma ’10
Art History
“The value of an arts degree to our sensory understanding of the world is immeasurable. Art drives innovation, and vice versa”
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Theatre
“My degree prepared me to be a well-rounded and hard worker, regardless of the path I took going forward.”
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Join us this spring as our virtual Suffrage Centennial Lecture Series continues and we explore both suffrage history and modern-day voting issues.
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Art
“I have the honor of using art to promote healing in therapy and it is a special tool that opens up a multitude of avenues for a person’s wellbeing.”
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Theatre
“My URI degree really opened my eyes to the multiple different sections of theatre and all the things I could do within the arts that’s not just acting.”
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Theatre
“The things I learned at URI and the connections that I made while there have proven invaluable to me time and time again.”
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Music
“Every culture in the world has always developed some sort of art, whether musical, visual, or theatrical, to express itself through because the arts are the great unifiers.”
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Art
“Every discipline needs the arts… The best scientists, engineers, teachers, and almost every profession is often better with creative, outside-the-box thinking.”
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Theatre
“I am fully convinced my theatre degree has put me above other candidates in my field as a librarian, especially as a candidate for youth services positions.”
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