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 ...

In part three of a series of articles that looks at the humanities at Bowdoin today, we examine the evidence supporting the idea that studying the humanities helps Bowdoin graduates find jobs—and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's been a sharp drop in the number of students majoring in the humanities. urbazon/E+ via Getty Images Stereotypes abound ...

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 ...

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 ...