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Thursday, March 12, 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Monday, January 26, 2015
Department Head of English Ottawa Catholic School Board Through my years in the Bachelor of Humanities, I met many people who challenged me to question everything and to find out who I would become, not what I would become. My education through the B.Hum. did not train me for a specific vocation, but rather... More
Friday, January 23, 2015
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Friday, December 5, 2014
Ross Finnie write in the Ottawa Citizen about a recent study of the Education Policy Research Initiative that studies the earnings from 1998-2010 of cohorts of graduates in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, and Computer Science. The results show that long-term earnings of Social Sciences and Humanities graduates are comparable to the... More
Thursday, October 9, 2014
The Economist's Schumpeter Blog suggests that, instead of shaping potential managers through physical and nature-oriented team-building exercises, business leaders should be encouraged to develop the inner person, by reading the Great... More
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Fourth-Year Medical Student University of Ottawa I chose the Humanities and Biology program at Carleton University because, coming out of high school, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to pursue the liberal arts or sciences. I saw the Hums and Bio program as the opportunity to do both. As a bonus, I would have... More
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