Archives: 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, 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

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

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

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