No. 48 The Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing. Optional—but highly desirable—capstone courses for juniors and seniors, designed to develop your written voice for a broad audience. Highly collaborative, spanning the full range of disciplines (Biology in the News, Music in Public, Economic Journalism), and capable of changing the way you think about language, communication, your major, and your future. Students who’ve taken the course tend to say things like “I loved everything about it,” “the most beneficial class I’ve taken,” and “the professor allowed me to build a bridge between my life as a student and my new career.”
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Internships (Funded!). Ninety percent of our students complete at least one internship during their time at Wellesley. Hundreds are funded, which means Wellesley pays you to gain experience in the field of your choice. Many are international; most put you in the middle of serious, meaningful work on behalf of real people (the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, the Emory Center for Neurogenerative Disease, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris). See Career Education (#15).
No. 50 Ophelia Dahl, addressing the problem. Co-founder of Partners in Health, one of the world’s most pragmatic, progressive nonprofits dedicated to health and human rights. She came to Wellesley at 23, as a Davis Scholar. “I thought I was going to be pre-med. But my eyes and heart were opened to the liberal arts: critical thinking, effective communication, examining the world from different perspectives. And I thought I was going simply to study a subject, but I was taught something more: how to work in teams, how to transform theory into practice, how to combine confidence, understanding, and expertise. The world needs women who can address any problem. Those women are here.” Class of 1994. 22