Drs. Na-Rae Han and Dan Villarreal recently received an award from the Office of the Provost for the 2022 "Year of Data and Society" initiative. This award will support a symposium titled “Careers in Language Data: How to prepare our language students for the data-focused job future.” Through this event, attendees will learn about the roles that language experts are increasingly playing in the technology industry. The event will present concrete paths for language majors and language departments in their pursuit of getting graduates ready for careers in the language data industry. Through the symposium, students and faculty will understand the data skills needed for this career preparation and provide a space for discussion about how curriculum and advising can support these data skills.
The smposium will be held Friday, April 1, 2022, so mark your calendars! More details will be provided soon.