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This paper examines the effectiveness of a course aimed at pressing humanities students into forging explicit connections between their studies and part-time work. Students undertaking Griffith University's Workplace Learning Project were engaged in a series of reflective experiences to find examples of generic skills in their backgrounds (work, university courses, part-time work) and to work out how the generic skills were related to these experiences. Ample evidence of struggle was found as students forged connections and were awakened to connections that they had not seen before and to feelings of empowerment. There were also examples of direct application of the new meanings in practice. It was concluded that the techniques were effective in building connections between particularised meanings and coherent wholes.

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