It has become increasingly apparent that anti-colonial and antiracist pedagogies are necessary in higher education classrooms, and honors education as an experimental zone is an ideal place to test ideas that can be taken into the wider university community. Honors professors epitomize the teacher-scholar model, and this paper presents a six-year…

Although teaching Shakespeare in Turkey naturally creates barriers of language, space and time, the use of digital humanities helped me to overcome these obstacles. My experiences at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, showed me that combining conventional methods of teaching Shakespeare in Turkey with digital tools helps to familiarise students…

The contemporary university is an uncomfortable amalgamation of ambitions once held by a variety of educational institutions. It owes debts to the philosophical schools of Ancient Greece and Rome, to the monasteries of the Middle Ages, to the theological colleges of Paris, Padua, and Bologna and to the research laboratories of early modern…

Educational leaders have, from time to time, claimed that humanities students are going to find direction, confidence, purpose, and a richer life through their studies. Yet, these students are exposed to only a few samples of history or literature -- not nearly enough subject matter to enrich their lives. (CK)

The "New Humanities" has called for new ways of engaging with Humanities texts; the European Science Foundation is just one major research funder to demand that the Humanities contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations. Meanwhile, traditionally trained disciplinary academics have resisted bringing traditional texts into…

SINCE MOST OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM IS DEVOTED TO SPECIALIZED DISCIPLINES, HUMANITIES COURSES PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CREATING IN STUDENTS AN AWARENESS OF THE UNITY WHICH EXISTS AMONG PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, AND THE ARTS. INTENSIVE STUDY AND CLASS DISCUSSION OF INDIVIDUAL WORKS BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE, HOWEVER, WHEN TOO MANY BOOKS ARE CROWDED INTO A…

Describes special program at the University of Denver funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to design and offer intensive interdisciplinary courses on cultures separated from our own by time and/or space. (Author/BK)

First portion of a paper delivered at Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland. (DS)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association held December 28-30, 1971, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (DS)

Paper presented on December 28, 1971, as part of the American Classical League Institute held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association. (DS)