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‘What is a fact?’ A humanities class prepares STEM students to be better scientists

What prompted the idea for the course? With all the conspiracy theories floating around in 2020 when COVID-19 hit, I wanted to help my students learn to identify and deal with them. I was also ...
The Stanford DailyOpinion

Jain | Stanford needs more rigorous humanities

Jain writes about how we can make a more rigorous humanities program at Stanford, especially while keeping it open to ...
University of California

Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system

Zrinka Stahuljak’s comparative literature course next quarter will cover much of the same subject matter she has taught in years past: a sweeping survey of writing from the Middle Ages to the 17th ...
The Daily Tar Heel

Column: There’s value in humanities classes with lighter loads

At UNC, it’s largely agreed that humanities classes are easier than STEM classes. I don’t stay in Davis Library studying until 2 a.m. for any of my English classes, like others do for their chemistry ...
The Daily Tar Heel

The hollowing of humanities and the history of a legendary UNC professor

Chris Yates’ favorite class from his time at UNC in the '90s was a rigorous course based around deep discussion of classic texts on philosophy and history, trying to search for the deepest truths of ...
LAist on MSN

Instead of banning AI, UCLA humanities classes embrace it

At first glance, Zrinka Stahuljak’s comparative literature class appears to be like any other in the humanities — a hundred ...
LancasterOnline

For future doctors, humanities classes required at Penn State's medical school in Hershey

HERSHEY — Sitting at tables in their classroom, a dozen college students spend the last day of a course sharing some of their favorite works of art — reading a poem by William Butler Yeats, playing a ...
The Durango Herald

Mountain Middle humanities class to host ‘Resilience Cafe’

Anna Layden’s eighth-grade humanities class at Mountain Middle School will hold a “Resilience Cafe” exhibition from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the Main Mall lobby at 835 Main Ave. The students have ...
Wyoming News

The power of humanities: Thinking beyond the classroom

Do you remember your favorite high school class? What made it your favorite? Was it the teacher, the classmates, the subject, the time of day or something else? For me, it was my sophomore year, and I ...
The New Yorker

The End of the English Major

The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...
Badger Herald

Reclaiming relevance: UW humanities departments combat national narrative

The humanities have served as the cornerstone of higher education since their very inception. According to the National Humanities Center, this academic discipline includes the study of history, ...