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 ...

AI is useful in the humanities: in literature, it can identify trends across centuries with textual analysis, analyze ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humanities classes are increasingly being moved to science buildings, including Victoria Hall and the Chevron Science Center, ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...