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 ...

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 ...

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

Rice University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. With all the conspiracy theories floating around in 2020 when COVID-19 hit, I wanted to help my students learn to identify and deal ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This summer we are launching a series about the humanities, examining why Bowdoin faculty are committed to teaching literature, languages, the arts, history, philosophy, and religion—and how students ...

Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.

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 ...

In a classroom in Jones Hall, students in the Near Eastern Humanities sequence partner up to compete in the Royal Game of Ur. Originating in Mesopotamia in the early third millennium B.C.E., the ...

Feb. 6—The Neshannock Township School Board approved the high school courses of study during its meeting Thursday. One new course, Humanities, was added for grades 10-12. According to the course ...