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local Battalion/Page 6 November 4,1982 College of Liberal Arts aids job hunters by Beverly Hamilton Battalion Staff Liberal arts graduates across the country have had trouble finding jobs — especially with high unemployment — but the Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts has worked to increase students’ chances of finding jobs. The associate dean of liberal arts, Dr. Candida Lutes, said the college has worked in three areas to help students find jobs: career opportunity minors, cooperative education and workshops for liberal arts stu dents. Lutes said the cooperative education program is helpful to liberal arts students who want job experience in their major or a related field. The program places students in ajob related to The OsbomePersonal Business Computer. 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She also will discuss career opportunity minors — packages of courses offered to students to increase their chances of getting ajob in the business world. The most popular minor among liberal arts students is English because it is easy to com plete, Lutes said. But more stu dents are minoring in business, she said, because it is viewed as a practical minor. Also during the convention, Lutes will discuss liberal arts workshops at the University. The college has sponsored workshops to give student strategies for job placement, Lutes said. The biggest problem with the liberal arts co-op program at The associate dean of li beral arts, Dr. Candida Lutes, said the college has worked in three areas to help students find jobs: career oppor tunity minors, coopera tive education and workshops for liberal arts students. ANNUAL FUND RAISING HARVEST DINNER November 6, 1982 Christian Sisters of the Brethren Church of B/CS Located off of Hwy. 30 East By-Pass between Post Oak Mall & KOA Campground 5:30 p.m. TILL 7:30 P.M. Public Invited COMPUTER CORPOPATIOM ComputerLand ® WE KNOW SMALL COMPUTERS LET US INTRODUCE YOU Post Oak Village-Hwy. 30 College Station, Tx. 77840 693-2020 First Presbyterian Church Texas A&M, Lutes said, is “get ting students into it.” She said there are about 20 students each semester involved in the liberal arts co-op prog ram, but there also are many companies who want to hire li beral arts students as co-ops and can’t find students to fill the positions. Once a student co-ops, he usually wants to do it again, Lutes said. When students gra duate, they usually work for the company with which they work ed for in the co-op program, Lutes added. In addition to the co-op prog ram, Lutes said Texas A&M li beral arts students have other opportunities that students at smaller liberal arts colleges may not have. She said liberal arts majors here get a strong, well- integrated education while stu dents at smaller colleges may not have a wide breadth of course work. She also said that a number of the colleges let their students overspecialize. There is a grea ter risk of this happening in smaller colleges because the fa culty specialize in liberal arts and not science and technology. Lutes said Texas A&M stu dents don’t seem to have a prob lem being placed in jobs. She said that only about 5 percent to 6 percent of Texas A&M liberal arts graduates have expressed difficulty finding jobs after gra duation. The College of Liberal Arts sent out questionnaires to De cember 1979 graduates asking about job placement after gra duation. Of the questionnaires returned — approximately 25 percent of those seni out — all graduates were involved in some sort of post-graduate work, either ajob or graduate school, Lutes said. But, she said, liberal arts stu dents don’t always work at jobs Ir.i ' gli . lilt; tingii related to their major. 01 responses received in tlit vey, graduates were workinj variety of job areas. Jobdi lions ranged from aides, computer operaton loan officers to a fashionm and an animal keeperata zoo. . i|| A large percentage of| arts graduates choose study. At Texas A&M tical science departmenthj h ighest percentage of gradi pursuing graduate studti about 45 percent. About3i| cent of the history majorsa in graduate studies, Lutesi The lowest enrollment ate work is 9 percent by thej nalism department. Enrollment in the Collq Liberal Arts has stayed over the past fewyearst out 1,7()() students in thep ram, approximately7pera 8 percent of the studentl< Lutes said. The psycholog partment is the largestwii students. Journalism has students enrolled and pol science has 234 students. English department has Ilf dents and the economicsde] ment has 136 students. The smallest department! philosophy with 21 stm theater arts — which isa department within theEitj department — with 43 and anthropology with41 dents enrolled. 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