This article describes a class room activity introduced at Unionville High School in Kennett Square, PA. Humanities teacher Daniel Lipowitz partnered with engineering teacher Michael Berkeihiser and other STEM teachers to put the humanities (H) in "SHTEM." Sophomore English students were asked to re-engineer the conflict in common works…

This article describes how the libraries at Lafayette College used digital scholarship methodologies to enhance student engagement and learning during the transition to remote learning due to the COVID-19 crisis. The article argues that digital scholarship tools and methods enhanced active learning during the shift to all-remote instruction by…

In this article, Joshua Block states that his high school students are creators discovering how to express their ideas and emotions in multiple, complex ways. He teaches students who write their lives through words on pages as they fill journal after journal. There are others who constantly write and create in the form of tweets, photos, videos,…

Not every student has done honors work in the humanities, but all students experience research at a human level that necessarily recalls the work of the humanities. This article describes how Joe Kraus, a professor of literature at the University of Scranton, was inspired to see applied humanities in stories of human experiences, which helped him…

This paper presents findings of a Mellon Foundation-funded study conducted at Penn State University in University Park during Fall 2012 that explored scholars' information practices across disciplines encompassing the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Drawing on results of the Web-based survey and ethnographic interviews, we present…

Ideal for faculty and administrators looking to blend business education and the liberal arts, this toolkit combines exemplary syllabi from 26 leading institutions with step-by-step strategies to advocate successfully for curricular innovation. Conceived with comprehensiveness in mind, these resources cover both inspiration and implementation for…

Geology education usually takes place within the context of a broader curriculum, but specific synergies between disciplines have rarely been explored or exploited. Here, we have assessed the spatial visualization skills of undergraduate students in a variety of disciplines to determine which are most compatible with a geology curriculum. Spatial…

Liberal education has been disappearing, and what remains is diminished and compromised. At Temple University, the largest department in the college of liberal arts is criminal justice. The second largest is counseling psychology, and the humanities disciplines have become left-veering sociology. While islands of traditional learning survive, the…

The Two Cultures phenomenon, first given its name by C. P. Snow in 1956, consists of a conflict between participants in the academic communities of the natural sciences and the humanities; it also mirrors the methodological debate in the social sciences. This phenomenon also occurs in undergraduates in an interdisciplinary research fellowship at…

Calls for Composition Studies to move beyond the "universal requirement" of first-year writing, and toward "a sequenced curriculum of courses that introduce students to discipline-specific principles and practices" have been partially realized by the growing number of writing majors. Public descriptions of these programs have…

This paper describes chat widgets, chunks of code that can be embedded on a web site to appear as an instant messaging system, and how they can be used on a science library web site to better serve library users. Interviews were conducted concerning experiences at science and humanities libraries and more similarities than differences were…

The purpose of a program for women in YWCA residential housing was to show that the humanities can be a dynamic, empowering approach to learning--even for homeless women. The experience of a 26-year-old jobless woman shows how the program changed her life. (JOW)

Since the 1990s, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as one of the most visible and widely read scholars on topics relating to African-American life and society. The Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, Dyson counts himself as one of many African-Americans who found comedian Bill Cosby's May 17, 2004,…

This resource guide divides arts and humanities into six areas listed in separate chapters: dance, film, literature, music, theater, and visual art. A seventh chapter lists historical resources and general cultural resources. Within each of the seven chapters are alphabetically listed resources identified for each intermediate unit. The chapters…

A HUMANITIES PROGRAM FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED 7TH AND 8TH GRADE STUDENTS IS DESCRIBED. THE PROGRAM IS HELD EACH SATURDAY MORNING ON THE CAMPUS OF INDIANA STATE COLLEGE. THE CLASS SESSIONS LAST ONE AND A HALF HOURS AND RUN FOR TWO SEMESTERS, EACH APPROXIMATELY 15 WEEKS IN LENGTH. THE AIM OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO PROVIDE AN ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCE…