Faculty-Led Undergraduate Research Opportunity: Discourse-Based Project, Spring 2024
The Humanities Division is excited to announce an experiential learning opportunity for Humanities undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz to work with Language and Applied Linguistics Professor Saori Hoshi .
Undergraduate research connects Humanities majors and minors to faculty-led research projects in the Division and it provides a valuable opportunity for students to apply their knowledge and develop skills to make an impactful intellectual or creative contribution to their field. Students gain practical experience and professional training that builds on their studies in the Humanities. At the same time, faculty benefit from students’ assistance and academic expertise.Job Title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Internship Term: Winter and Spring Quarters 2024, January – June 2024.
Application Deadline: March 3, 2024
Time Commitment: 15 hours/week
Paid: $20/hour
# Positions Available: 1
Location: Hybrid - in person meetings with some remote work
Reports to: Professor Saori Hoshi
Project Overview: This project is text-based research where students will learn how to conduct discourse-based research that involves quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data sets.
Job Duties
- Quantitative analysis [100%] - work on basic statistical analysis that generates important findings of the study.
Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- You are a declared major or minor in a department in the Humanities Division, and you are in good academic standing. [required]
- You have intermediate-advanced Japanese language skills [required]
- You are familiar with basic statistical approaches for linguistic analysis such an ANCOVA, zero-inflated Poisson regression model, etc. [required]
Preferred Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- This opportunity is a great fit for Linguistics or Languages & Applied Linguistics majors/minors who would be interested in developing your research skills including data collection and diverse analytical methods in linguistics.
What You’ll Gain From This Experience:
This research opportunity will benefit students to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills (conducting research and data analysis); leadership and collaboration (time management and goal setting to complete their assigned work); and creativity and curiosity (willingness to learn something new and unfamiliar).
How To Apply:
Apply by submitting your resume and a short cover letter (no more than one page) answering these questions: Why are you interested in this job? Why should you be hired for this position? What skills will you contribute to this project?
Please address your cover letter to Professor Hoshi
- A tip for writing this cover letter is to consider how this position will further your undergraduate studies as well as your professional career once you have completed your education. Feel free to be creative here. Work in the Public Humanities does not have a rigid framework and innovation and the ability to adapt is a key component.
- Review these resume and cover letter resources to ensure that you are a strong candidate.
Please contact Experiential Learning Coordinator Kylie Rachwalski at hum-experiential-learning@ucsc.edu with any questions.
This undergraduate internship is generously supported by The Mellon Foundation.
