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Monday, July 31, 2017
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
Article on the 20th Anniversary of the B.Hum Program last... More
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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