{"id":194,"date":"2014-01-24T23:36:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:17:36","slug":"humanities-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/humanities-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bachelor of Humanities Blog<\/h2>\n

Friday, September 19, 2025<\/p>

Alumnus Testimonial<\/h3>

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023<\/p>

Alumni Profile-Evan Annett (2005)<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, July 27, 2023<\/p>

Bachelor of Humanities Alumni Newsletter Summer 2023<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, June 19, 2023<\/p>

Jenny Murphy, Why the Liberal Arts Called to Her After a Lifetime of Scientific Pursuits<\/h3>

With a Bachelor of Science in physics and a Master\u2019s in radioastronomy under her belt, Jennifer Murphy entered Britain\u2019s 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, March 14, 2022<\/p>

BHUM Career Night March 24th 2022<\/h3>

Pdf... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, January 31, 2022<\/p>

BHum Career Options in the Tech Industry Event<\/h3>

  On November 19th 2021, three of our BHum alumni gave a presentation to Humanities students providing some answers to the question\u00a0 \u201cwhat the heck am I going to do with a bhum degree?\u201d\u00a0 It turns out that the skills BHum students are learning are in high demand in the tech industry. Amanda Hadi... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, February 5, 2021<\/p>

Alumni Profile-Pascale Arpin-(2011)<\/h3>

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\u2019s career also bridges art and commerce and it sprung from the College of the Humanities, but the similarities... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, January 22, 2021<\/p>

HUMS Grads Conquer Diverse Fields<\/h3>

By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Yuli Scheidt and Courtesy of Pascale Arpin Hail to The Humanities: Carleton Grads Conquering Diverse Fields... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, November 16, 2020<\/p>

Student Blog: A Day in the Life of a Humanities & Biology Student<\/h3>

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\u2019t have to choose between the Liberal Arts and STEM. In this program, I get to... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, July 10, 2020<\/p>

BHUM Students Involved in the Students as Partners Program<\/h3>

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: \u201cdiversifying the curriculum.\u201d She is researched and helped to create new modules on seventeenth-century North American... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, February 11, 2020<\/p>

Alumni-Please Stay in Touch!<\/h3>

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018<\/p>

Carleton\u2019s First Bachelor of Journalism and Humanities Graduate<\/h3>

By Matt Gergyek If you asked your average working journalist how their profession connects to the field of humanities or vice versa, you\u2019d probably leave them stumped. The ancient worlds of Plato and Aristotle and the study of history, philosophy and art \u2013 the foundations of the humanities discipline \u2013 aren\u2019t usually seen as... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, May 2, 2018<\/p>

20th Anniversary ‘TED’-Style Talks<\/h3>

"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\u2019s 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, July 31, 2017<\/p>

Alumni Profile-Robin Visser (B.HUM 2008)<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, June 26, 2017<\/p>

Reflecting on 20 Years of the Bachelor of Humanities<\/h3>

Article on the 20th Anniversary of the B.Hum Program last... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, February 14, 2017<\/p>

Looking Backward, Looking Forward<\/h3>

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\u2019s 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, December 15, 2016<\/p>

How Lucky I am to be Here Right Now<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, October 7, 2016<\/p>

The Bachelor of Humanities (BHum) celebrates its 20th Anniversary with Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni<\/h3>

On Friday the 30th\u00a0of September, the\u00a0Bachelor of the Humanities\u00a0program welcomed alumni and their families back to Carleton to celebrate the program\u2019s 20th\u00a0anniversary. 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, July 14, 2016<\/p>

Teach Me How to Say Goodbye<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, January 29, 2016<\/p>

Sam’s Blog-Applying Knowledge to Your Life<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, November 2, 2015<\/p>

Prof. Micheline White \u2014 CBC Tapestry \u2014 How two Queens revolutionized the Book of Common Prayer<\/h3>

Prof. Micheline White speaks to Mary Hines of CBC\u00a0Radio's "Tapestry" about Catherine Parr, Queen Elizabeth I and their hand in the Book of Common... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, September 18, 2015<\/p>

2015 Bachelor of Humanities High School Essay Contest<\/h3>

The Bachelor of Humanities Carleton University's\u00a0Bachelor of Humanities\u00a0is\u00a0Canada's\u00a0premier program in the Great Books. Humanities students\u00a0read the most influential books and study the most exciting ideas\u00a0in all the traditional arts disciplines\u2014literature, philosophy, history, art, music, political theory, and religion. Students in the... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, May 25, 2015<\/p>

“If Students are Smart, They’ll Major in What they Love” \u2014 Chronicle of Higher Education<\/h3>

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\u2019t really care about someone\u2019s major. What they want are basic but difficult-to-acquire skills. When they ask students about their... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, May 20, 2015<\/p>

Public Lecture \u2014 Being Modern: What the Enlightenment Can Still Teach Us \u2014 Wed. 27 May<\/h3>

Speaker:\u00a0Professor Douglas Moggach The 18th\u00a0century Enlightenment changed everything. \u201cAll that is solid melts into air,\u201d 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, May 4, 2015<\/p>

Alumni Profile\u2014Bradley Laflamme (2015)<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, March 12, 2015<\/p>

Sam Lehman-Humanities in the Real World<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, March 10, 2015<\/p>

Student Profile\u2014Deepro Chowdhury<\/h3>

Bachelor of Humanities and Biology Class of 2015 I chose to enter the Humanities and Biology stream at Carleton because, while I\u2019ve always been sure I wanted to be a doctor, I\u2019ve also always loved politics, philosophy and history. Initially this caused problems because I assumed during high school that I\u2019d have to pick... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, March 8, 2015<\/p>

Alumni Profile\u2014Kateri Couture-Latour (2011)<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, March 7, 2015<\/p>

Alumni Profile\u2014Mike Halucha (2001)<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, March 3, 2015<\/p>

Gregory MacIsaac talks \u2018holistic\u2019 reading and the joy of thinking<\/h3>

By Dario Balca, TLS staff writer Front to back, page by page, line by line\u2014this is how Carleton humanities professor Gregory MacIsaac teaches his students some of the most challenging texts history has to offer. It\u2019s all part of the award-winning professor\u2019s unique approach to teaching what he calls \u201cholistic\u201d reading. This means... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, February 27, 2015<\/p>

Sam Lehman-Why Not Humanities?<\/h3>

February 17, 2015 Why not Humanities? The Humanities program is a process. It is a journey.\u00a0 Its curriculum is wondrously interconnected to ensure that its students receive a well-rounded education.\u00a0 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, February 20, 2015<\/p>

We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, January 26, 2015<\/p>

Alumni Profile\u2014Brett Walker (2002)<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, January 23, 2015<\/p>

Sam Lehman is “Stuck on Life”<\/h3>

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Friday, December 5, 2014<\/p>

Graduates in the Humanities have earnings comparable to other fields<\/h3>

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\u00a0show that long-term earnings of Social Sciences and Humanities graduates are comparable to the... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div>

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