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Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented BackgroundsShare This: Share Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds on FacebookShare Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds on LinkedInShare Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds on X
Curated by Gorick Ng, author of “The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right”

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Job search platform for careers for graphic designers, copywriters, social media managers, proofreaders, and more. Offers resume resources and freelance …

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Resources for young professionals in the arts in New York City. Offers events, informational articles, and opportunities. 

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Entertainment jobs and internship listings. Offers opportunities in film, TV, sports, music, production, animation, radio, PR, and more. Includes resume, …

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Featured Courses

WRCT 201 – Writing Theory and Practice

Writing is central to education in the U.S., but how does someone learn to write? In this course, students will…

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WRCT 201 – Writing Theory and Practice

COL 339

GOV 214 – Media and Politics

QAC 386 – Quantitative Textual Analysis: Introduction to Text Mining

QAC 203 – Hollywood and Big Data

WRCT 308 – Ancestral Writings: (Re)Tracing AfroCarribean and Indigenous Frameworks for Creative Writing

WRCT 317 – Writing and Drawing Comics

WRCT 265 – Creating Children’s Books I

THEA 350 – Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Arts Journalism

THEA 259 – Facing the Blank Page

CHUM 380 – Exploring Personhood in the 20th and 21st Centuries

ENGL 292 – Techniques of Nonfiction

CSPL 494: Internship

QAC 250 – An Introduction to Data Journalism

COL 278 / SISP 278 – Medicine: An Artful Science or Scientific Art? Physician Writers Since 1900

ENGL 242 – Longform Narrative

ENGL 228 – Life Writing: Writing About the Self and From Experience

CLST 330 – Classical Studies Today: Writing for a General Audience

CSPL 268 – Reporting on Global Issues: International Journalism in Action

BIOL 365 – Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: 21st-Century Biology

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