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 ...

F or the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing course, but it also introduces ...

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A dozen Harvard students huddled around a table — their laptops open — trying to find new words to redefine a phenomenon they've seen happening their whole lives: climate change. That's the assignment ...

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While researching theory on aesthetic appreciation and artistic analysis in preparation for a trip to Greece with the Western Humanities Sequence last fall, I read a few chapters from a 2015 ...

Professor Vanessa Mercado-Taylor speaks to students during a humanities course, Mexican American fine arts appreciation, at Dallas College’s Eastfield campus, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Mesquite. A ...

In their teaching and research, Princeton University’s humanities faculty keep their intellectual antennas tuned to what Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett calls “the frequencies of ideas,” crackling ...

How can a course called Chinese Religions or Haitian Culture and Society incorporate readings from the “Western canon”? Florida university faculty have until July to figure it out. A new Florida law ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by a philosophy professor about difficulties defending the humanities. To the Editor: Re “I Teach the Humanities. I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is,” by Agnes ...

In his letter to the Daily of Thursday, March 16, “Humanities flourish at U,” Professor Brewer tells us the humanities are alive and well at the University of Minnesota. The word “humanities” is used ...

Roosevelt Montás was born in a rural village in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the United States when he was eleven years old. He attended public schools in Queens, where he took classes in ...