Bachelor of Humanities Blog

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Alumni Profile-Evan Annett (2005)

Digital Presentation Editor The Globe and Mail 2005 Graduate In the summer of 2005, when I earned my BHums degree and joined The Globe and Mail's copy desk, it felt as if everything and nothing in my life had changed. At Carleton, I had spent four years reading voraciously, analyzing the core ideas behind... More

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Bachelor of Humanities Alumni Newsletter Summer 2023

Greetings from the Director, Shane Hawkins Greetings to all on the occasion of our second BHum newsletter! Although I had hoped to get this edition out earlier, it has been a wonderfully active spring and summer in the College. So, while the newsletter is delayed, it is only for the happiest of reasons. Full... More

Monday, June 19, 2023

Jenny Murphy, Why the Liberal Arts Called to Her After a Lifetime of Scientific Pursuits

With a Bachelor of Science in physics and a Master’s in radioastronomy under her belt, Jennifer Murphy entered Britain’s 1960s workforce with a bang. In the years that followed, Murphy built for herself an impressive career in the sciences, moving to Canada to help monitor the Earth through satellite imaging as a physical scientist... More

Monday, April 24, 2023

Bachelor of Humanities Alumni Newsletter Coming Soon!

In the fall we published our very first newsletter from the College of the Humanities! We hope this is a way to keep you informed about the College and for you to stay in touch with us. Another newsletter will be coming soon, stay tuned! If you'd like to be added to the mailing... More

Monday, March 14, 2022

BHUM Career Night March 24th 2022

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Monday, January 31, 2022

BHum Career Options in the Tech Industry Event

  On November 19th 2021, three of our BHum alumni gave a presentation to Humanities students providing some answers to the question  “what the heck am I going to do with a bhum degree?”  It turns out that the skills BHum students are learning are in high demand in the tech industry. Amanda Hadi... More

Friday, February 5, 2021

Alumni Profile-Pascale Arpin-(2011)

Pascale Arpin, Artist From article "Hail to The Humanities: Carleton Grads Conquering Diverse Fields" By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Yuli Scheidt and Courtesy of Pascale Arpin When Tim Burton Likes the Way You Paint Pascale Arpin’s career also bridges art and commerce and it sprung from the College of the Humanities, but the similarities... More

Friday, January 22, 2021

HUMS Grads Conquer Diverse Fields

By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Yuli Scheidt and Courtesy of Pascale Arpin Hail to The Humanities: Carleton Grads Conquering Diverse Fields... More

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Student Blog-The Final Frontier: Plotinus

The Final Frontier: Plotinus Moobinah, 2nd Year B.Hum Biology Student December 2020 After two hours of frantically racking my brain for metabolic processes and cellular components, I finally submit my biochemistry exam. Answering 100 questions in two hours was difficult, but thankfully, the ordeal is now over. My brain tries to linger on the... More

Monday, November 16, 2020

Student Blog: A Day in the Life of a Humanities & Biology Student

A Day in the Life of a Humanities & Biology Student Moobinah, 2nd Year B.Hum Biology Student November 2020 As a second year in the Humanities (Great Books) and Biology stream at Carleton, I am grateful that I don’t have to choose between the Liberal Arts and STEM. In this program, I get to... More

Friday, July 10, 2020

BHUM Students Involved in the Students as Partners Program

Heather Sutcliffe and Professor Micheline White were successful in their application for Heather to work as part of the Students as Partners Program (SaPP) 2020 program. Heather worked on a project for HUMS 3000 called: “diversifying the curriculum.” She is researched and helped to create new modules on seventeenth-century North American... More

Monday, June 22, 2020

Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

Congratulations to our BHUM and BJHUM students who graduated on Friday June 19,... More

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Alumni-Please Stay in Touch!

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Carleton’s First Bachelor of Journalism and Humanities Graduate

By Matt Gergyek If you asked your average working journalist how their profession connects to the field of humanities or vice versa, you’d probably leave them stumped. The ancient worlds of Plato and Aristotle and the study of history, philosophy and art – the foundations of the humanities discipline – aren’t usually seen as... More

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

20th Anniversary ‘TED’-Style Talks

"On Friday the 30th of September, 2016, the Bachelor of the Humanities program welcomed alumni and their families back to Carleton to celebrate the program’s 20th anniversary. Faculty and former students caught up with each other at an informal pub-night and a gala dinner, and seven alumni turned the tables on their former professors... More

Monday, November 27, 2017

Fall Break Trip to NYC

Lindsay Tannahill, October 2017: I was lucky enough to be apart of the magnificent trip that some of the Humanities students took to New York City over reading week. It was a phenomenal experience, and it was wonderful to be able to explore the city with such a great group of my peers. Definite... More

Monday, July 31, 2017

Alumni Profile-Robin Visser (B.HUM 2008)

I graduated from the Humanities program in 2008 with a combined honours in Biology (in the era before there was an official 'stream' of curriculum geared towards this). With Dr. Laird's encouragement, I applied and was accepted to medicine at McMaster University. There, I completed my MD in 2011 and went on to pursue... More

Monday, June 26, 2017

Reflecting on 20 Years of the Bachelor of Humanities

Article on the 20th Anniversary of the B.Hum Program last... More

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Looking Backward, Looking Forward

What if you went to sleep tonight and woke up tomorrow a hundred and thirteen years from now? That is the exact situation Julian West, the protagonist from Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel Looking Backward, finds himself in at the start of the text. Well, I have been thinking about time and how quickly it... More

Thursday, December 15, 2016

How Lucky I am to be Here Right Now

Despite the papers, studying, and exams, it still feels like Christmas at Carleton. Maybe it was the snow on the ground that first got me in the mood to hum carols, or maybe it was simply the mounting adrenaline in my veins that clued me in to my upcoming deadlines. As I have progressed... More

Friday, October 7, 2016

The Bachelor of Humanities (BHum) celebrates its 20th Anniversary with Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni

On Friday the 30th of September, the Bachelor of the Humanities program welcomed alumni and their families back to Carleton to celebrate the program’s 20th anniversary. Faculty and former students caught up with each other at an informal pub-night and a gala dinner, and seven alumni turned the tables on their former professors by giving a... More

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Teach Me How to Say Goodbye

Teach Me How to Say Goodbye We know how to say thank you. In fact, for many people the courtesy of giving thanks was ingrained in them since childhood, but we are not generally taught to thank a place. I suppose the logic is that a place cannot understand or comprehend us. A place... More

Friday, January 29, 2016

Sam’s Blog-Applying Knowledge to Your Life

January 29, 2016 Applying knowledge to your life I spent my Christmas break at home in Ottawa with my immediate family, and besides several cameos made by my friends, my holiday was quiet. However, in the past it has not been as tranquil. I am thinking specifically of my first Christmas after I had... More

Monday, November 2, 2015

Prof. Micheline White — CBC Tapestry — How two Queens revolutionized the Book of Common Prayer

Prof. Micheline White speaks to Mary Hines of CBC Radio's "Tapestry" about Catherine Parr, Queen Elizabeth I and their hand in the Book of Common... More

Friday, September 18, 2015

2015 Bachelor of Humanities High School Essay Contest

The Bachelor of Humanities Carleton University's Bachelor of Humanities is Canada's premier program in the Great Books. Humanities students read the most influential books and study the most exciting ideas in all the traditional arts disciplines—literature, philosophy, history, art, music, political theory, and religion. Students in the... More

Monday, May 25, 2015

“If Students are Smart, They’ll Major in What they Love” — Chronicle of Higher Education

Cecilia Gaposhkin, Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean at Dartmouth College, writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education, that company representatives who come to Dartmouth to hire graduates "don’t really care about someone’s major. What they want are basic but difficult-to-acquire skills. When they ask students about their... More

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Public Lecture — Being Modern: What the Enlightenment Can Still Teach Us — Wed. 27 May

Speaker: Professor Douglas Moggach The 18th century Enlightenment changed everything. “All that is solid melts into air,” as Karl Marx famously describes the modern world the Enlightenment inaugurates. Institutions, religious beliefs, cultural values, even the sense of ourselves as individuals and our place in nature and society: these are... More

Monday, May 4, 2015

Alumni Profile—Bradley Laflamme (2015)

Graduate Student in Biology/Biochemistry University of Toronto This may seem surprising, but I was not interested in the liberal arts coming out of high school. My interest in medicine made me think that I would follow some friends into programs geared towards medicine at the University of Ottawa. For whatever reason (probably more dumb... More

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Sam Lehman-Humanities in the Real World

March 11, 2015 Humanities in the real world Once you accept your offer to Carleton University you will feel a frisson of excitement run through you. That is the feeling of opportunity. University will open up so many doors for you. Throughout your future years at Carleton you will make good friends, take great... More

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Student Profile—Deepro Chowdhury

Bachelor of Humanities and Biology Class of 2015 I chose to enter the Humanities and Biology stream at Carleton because, while I’ve always been sure I wanted to be a doctor, I’ve also always loved politics, philosophy and history. Initially this caused problems because I assumed during high school that I’d have to pick... More

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Alumni Profile—Kateri Couture-Latour (2011)

High-School Biology Teacher American College of Sofia, Bulgaria I completed the Humanities and Biology program at Carleton in 2011, spent a year teaching in England, then moved to Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Education degree, with biology and philosophy as my teaching subjects. I am now a high school Biology teacher at the... More

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Alumni Profile—Mike Halucha (2001)

Policy Analyst Health Canada After completing the Bachelor of Humanities in 2001, I began a varied career in the public service. I have worked in five federal Departments in a number of very different roles. I began with a brief stint with Immigration Canada, where, as an Inland Officer, I investigated immigration cases (e.g.... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Gregory MacIsaac talks ‘holistic’ reading and the joy of thinking

By Dario Balca, TLS staff writer Front to back, page by page, line by line—this is how Carleton humanities professor Gregory MacIsaac teaches his students some of the most challenging texts history has to offer. It’s all part of the award-winning professor’s unique approach to teaching what he calls “holistic” reading. This means... More

Friday, February 27, 2015

Sam Lehman-Why Not Humanities?

February 17, 2015 Why not Humanities? The Humanities program is a process. It is a journey.  Its curriculum is wondrously interconnected to ensure that its students receive a well-rounded education.  I often find myself struggling to describe my program to others: how can I convey this idea of pursuing a degree for the purpose... More

Friday, February 20, 2015

We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training

Dr. Loretta Jackson-Hayes argues in the Washington Post that America doesn't "need more STEM majors," it needs "more STEM majors with liberal arts... More

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