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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
By Dr. Amy C. Wallace Undergraduate students in HUMS2101A Art from Antiquity to the Medieval World recently completed an Art in Quarantine assignment. Based on the #artinquarantine trend that emerged on social media in March 2020, the assignment asked students to choose an artwork from the textbook and to re-imagine it for the twenty-first... More
Monday, November 16, 2020
Fellow parents of grade 12 students: Anxiety is something that we’re all struggling to live with these days, but if your teen is graduating from high school this year, you may be dealing with even more soul-searching, gut-wrenching stress – theirs, but also your own. How to advise? What makes a good life? You... More
Monday, August 31, 2020
This week, First Person looks at heading back to class, something that’s always challenging, even without a pandemic. Full article from the Globe and Mail, published August 28,... More
Friday, July 10, 2020
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
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Education without liberal arts is a threat to humanity, argues UBC President From engineering to medicine, we have more elaborate and specialized professions than ever. But the academic programs that prepare people for them will have little impact on the health of society unless we develop a sense of the human condition. That's 'job... More
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
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
Monday, June 26, 2017
Article on the 20th Anniversary of the B.Hum Program last... More
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Please check 20th Anniversary Celebrations regularly for updates on the planning of the Anniversary Celebrations. The event will be held over 3 days, from Friday September 30th to Sunday October 2nd.... More
Friday, September 18, 2015
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, August 17, 2015
This story appears in the August 17, 2015 issue of... More
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Prof. W.R. Newell, who teaches HUMS 4000, is offering two seminars in the upcoming academic year that might be of interest to 4th-year and particularly keen 3rd year students. The descriptions are as follows: PSCI 4809/5308 Fall. CONCEPTS OF POLITICAL COMMUNITY I — Justice, Tyranny and The Common Good. Fridays 8:35 - ll:35 am Plato's... More
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