Sampling <div>Interview format </div><div>Data analysis </div><div><br></div><div>Results: graduate interviews </div><div>1. Individual benefits </div><div>1. Skills and abilities </div><div> 1. Good language and communication skills </div><div> 2. Critical and independent thinking </div><div> 3. Multiperspectival thinking </div><div> 4. Adaptability and flexibility </div> 5. Advanced research and textual analysis skills <div> 6. Enhanced sensibility </div><div> 7. Capacity for life-long learning </div><div>2. The formation of personality, values, and vision </div><div> 1. Enhanced self-knowledge </div> 2. Creativity <div> 3. Meaning in life </div><div> 4. Moral integrity </div><div> 5. Open-mindedness </div><div> 6. Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm </div><div> 7. Emotional and spiritual fortification </div><div> 8. Empathy and care for fellow humans </div><div> 9. A sense of mission to spread humanities knowledge </div><div><br></div><div>2. Characteristics of career development narratives </div><div>1. A great variety of career paths among graduates </div><div>2. Initial disorientation followed by gradual career establishment </div><div>3. Interest and meaning as career priorities </div><div>4. Distinct competitiveness brought about by individual benefits </div><div>5. Further studies for specific career needs </div><div>6. Challenges to career development </div><div> 1. Education as the dominant industry </div><div> 2. The volatility of a creative career </div><div> 3. Barriers to entry into specialized humanities jobs </div><div> 4. Lack of specific training for the general job market </div><div> 5. Difficulty convincing others of the use of humanities education </div><div> 6. Clash between the humanities and commercial values </div><div><br></div><div>3. Characteristics of humanities pedagogy </div><div>1. Teachers as role models and mentors </div><div>2. Individualized learning methods: tutorial discussions and dissertations </div><div>3. Insightful major texts </div><div><br></div><div>4. Characteristics of humanities education narratives </div><div>1. Upon entering university: passion for the subject </div><div>2. During university study: formative education 56</div><div>3. Upon graduation and after: the lasting influence of wisdom derived from education </div><div>4. The intangibility of the values of humanities education </div><div><br></div><div>5. The essential contributions of humanities education to Hong Kong society </div><div>1. The maintenance of language standards </div><div>2. Contributions to quality education </div><div>3. Emotional and spiritual nourishment </div><div>4. Synergy with business values that underpin economy and society </div><div>5. Preserving and transmitting Hong Kong culture </div><div>6. The arts as social and community service </div><div>7. Promoting cultural sensitivity, awareness, and diversity </div><div>8. Tempering excessive materialism and instrumentalism </div><div>9. Promoting civic values and engagement </div><div>10. The challenging socio-economic climate in Hong Kong limiting potential contributions </div><div><br></div><div>Further discussion </div><div>Recommendations on pedagogical interventions based on the graduate interviews</div><div>Hong Kong’s economic conditions </div><div><br></div><div>Part II: graduate employment survey data </div><div>Methodology </div><div>Results: graduate survey data </div><div>Further discussion </div><div><br></div><div>Part III: Conversations with senior humanities scholars </div><div>The humanities as both broadly and personally defined </div><div>The humanities as engaging with and contributing to (Hong Kong) society </div>The current state of the humanities in Hong Kong universities <div>Conclusion </div><div>A Final Brief Summary </div><div>Appendix </div><div>Works Cited</div>
