For decades now, a prevailing narrative in higher ed has been that humanities departments are withering away as incoming college students prioritize what are said to be more “career-related” majors in ...

In third grade, I had my first taste of stress: multiplication table worksheets.  The numbers on the page were indecipherable ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The humanities study the things humans make. That definition is better—more accurate and more ...

We are living in an unsettling time. We need to reverse the decline in studying humanities. The real ‘return on investment’ ...

In part three of a series of articles that looks at the humanities at Bowdoin today, we examine the evidence supporting the idea that studying the humanities helps Bowdoin graduates find jobs—and ...

F or the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing course, but it also introduces ...

In their teaching and research, Princeton University’s humanities faculty keep their intellectual antennas tuned to what Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett calls “the frequencies of ideas,” crackling ...

Maxwell Eller is majoring in classics and Arturo Padilla in religious studies for health professionals, both at the University of Arizona. “It helped my attention span in a world of YouTube and ...

“So what’s your major?” we’ve all heard. After sharing my plans, I’m often told: “What are you going to do with that?” It seems like a harmless question, but to an annually decreasing population of ...

The death of the humanities. The undying "well, what are you planning on doing with that?" This perceived ‘death’ has plagued students in these fields for as long as they decided that math, science ...