Our program and the classes that we offer
activate these places inside us that makes us want to get a job and to live a life
that's worth living. 
People go, "Oh what are you going to do with an English degree?" 
But now, when we're bringing this kind of media into the study of English
it really has the capacity to launch somone into a career.
The focus at Community College—more so, again, than the universities—is to prepare students
to go out in the world.
Being able to combine literature with incredibly practical,
incredibly marketable skills, is the English degree for the 21st century. 
All the composition classes that we teach here are focused on critical analysis.
How to analyze the credibility and quality of a source and how to use them. 
And I think those skills are going to translate into you any job that you have.
If you're a maker or a storyteller, right away
you can start those 
incredible classes offered at Clackamas and be moving toward your degree.
My job is to help students, first, find
their stories and then tell their stories. 
It takes courage, sometimes, to tell your
story. But the first step is finding it.
Walter Murch edited Apocalypse Now, the
Godfather pictures and the English Patient
and all these things you know. 
And Walter Murch said, 
"But what you're teaching people is about the location of the waterhole. 
Where stories come to drink."
Take a look at this. See if there is anything for you. 
