Career Courses

Have you considered taking a career course? These courses will help you achieve your professional goals by allowing you to explore options you are interested in and teaching you essential career skills for navigating today's internships and job market. You’ll be better prepared for the world of work after you graduate!

Fall 2026 Career Courses

Check SPIRE for specific course requirements and details.

HM&FNART 498S - Senior Bridges

Th 10 to 11:15 am | 1 credit

This course will support you as you plan and search for your first job after graduation. Gain foundational job search skills including resume and cover letters, finding opportunities, interviewing, and networking. This course will reduce the stress of job-hunting by providing structure and support from your instructor and peers, and meetings will also feature guests who will share their experiences. Let’s find a job together! Open to HFA Seniors. 

HM&FNART 292M - From Here to Career for Humanities and Fine Arts Majors

  • Section 1: MW: 12:20 to 1:10 pm | 2 credits | Instructor: Jessica Keene
  • Section 2: MW: 9:05 to 9:55 am | 2 credits | Instructor: Jessica Keene

This career development course is designed to help HFA students prepare for internship and job opportunities through the acquisition of professional competencies needed to succeed in today's evolving job market. Students will be encouraged to explore career pathways that align with their personal values, preferences, and skill sets. The class encourages students to develop a variety of professionalization skills, such as internship and job search strategies, resume and cover letter customization, networking, and interviewing techniques. Students will evaluate and appreciate the unique qualities HFA majors bring to the job market. Attendance at HFA career events outside of class is required.

ARTS-EXT 500 Introduction to Arts Management

  • 01-LEC (18920) Online | Instructor: Nicole Young
  • 01-LEC (10664) TuTh 4:20 to 5:35 pm | Instructor: Dee Boyle-Clapp

Introduces the "business of the arts," and provides an overview of the careers in arts management. Designed for those new to the field, considering an arts management career, or who are interested in starting one's own nonprofit. Open to all UMass Amherst students.

ART-HIST 398 Practicum

  • 01-PRA (10636) | Instructors: Amanda Herman, Margaret Vickery, and Talysha Rivera
  • 02-PRA (10637) | TBA | Instructor: Amanda Herman and Margaret Vickery

We will explore potential career paths with guest speakers from museums, libraries, archives, galleries, auction houses, and more. The course is designated to help majors begin to plan art history careers through coursework, internships, and other work experiences. 

ENGLISH 389 - The Major and Beyond: Career Exploration for English Majors

Tu 5:30 to 6:45 pm | Instructor: Jennifer Minnen

This course helps English majors find their way to the post-graduate life they want. Students practice important job search skills, learn to articulate the worth of their major, and leave the course with a better sense of their vocational direction. In addition to receiving individualized guidance in creating cover letters and resumes of immediate use, students work on multiple other assignments: attendance at career events, interviews with professionals from fields of interest, a professional presentation, a short paper researching professions, and participation in a mock interview. The course gives students a chance to build community with other English majors, make useful contacts in the department, college, and university, and practice networking with alumni, employers, and others.