How do you think jobs in the humanities (or your specific area) will change in the future?

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• Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg
  Département des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines:
  
  As my specific area is concerned (history) I think that our teachers in secondary schools will use Internet facilities more and more. Unfortunately our curriculum does not take into account these possibilities for the moment. In Teacher training (or better learning) the place of IT is very limited.For researchers in history it is clear that IT and Internet facilities are excellent tools. TOOLS!!! Only tools, but tools.
  
  
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Tronheim- NTNU
  Department of Drama, Film and Theatre:
  
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• The Robert Gordon University
  CRiAD- Centre for Research in Art and Design Gray's School of Art:
  
  Within Art and Design there is increasing demand for collaborative practice. This is perceived to be a radical shift away from the cult of the individual towards the development of a new perception of the individual practitioner as a member of a team, or part of a network of relationships, both within and across disciplines. This can be seen in particular in the rapid development of opportunities for commissions as well as in the instigation of cultural events, to which visual artists are contributors, not sole participators. The metaphor of the network, clearly developed out of and beyond the field of computing, has led towards a greater embedding of the individual practitioner of Art and Design within a specific culture. This process of embedding is making demands on practitioners to communicate what they do and how beyond the assumptions of their own specific area with a consequent increase in research methodologies with which to achieve this process of communication and accountability.
  
  
• Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
  Departamento de Linguistica, Lenguas Modernas, Logica y Filosofia de la Ciencia:
  
  Dramatically. We'll need more and more scholars with skills in Philology, Linguistics and a sound knowledge of Humanities Computing Computers in classroom, web based courses and e-mail tuition will be the fundamental assets.
  
  
• Universität Bonn
  Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik :
  
  Electronic and internet publishing will play a key role. The amount of available texts will strengthen the need of semantic content indexing and filtering.
  
  
• Universitat de Barcelona
  Faculty of Filology. Department of Spanish Filology.:
  
  It will serve to give a broader impact and extension throughout the European Community to some areas (Literature, for example) and to increase the speed of apprenticeship for students. It will also make us more aware of the benefits taken from a higher and deeper communication with some other Universities or institutions interested in studying or treating the same contents or with other departments so as to develop a better knowledge of our subjects.
  
  
• University of Zurich
  Dept. of Computer Sciences:
  
  Computer literacy in a very wide sense is getting increasingly more important than many of t
  
  
• Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
  Anglistik, Arbeitsbereich Linguistik:
  
  An academic education in the humanities will probably have to enclose a number of "engineering" topics (linguistic / information / communication engineering) to enable graduates to survive in a job in the informastion society. Mathematics and computational issues might become core modules of a humanities' subject.