Introductory courses have long been the backbone of many a Harvard student’s undergraduate experience. But while science concentrators enroll in Life Sciences 1a and economics concentrators opt to ...

Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels sent a message to undergraduate students and their parents today stressing the vital importance of the humanities in higher education, noting that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's been a sharp drop in the number of students majoring in the humanities. urbazon/E+ via Getty Images Stereotypes abound ...

The Community College Research Center (CCRC) just issued two reports on the state of the Humanities at community colleges in the U.S. One looks at the proportion of students who major in humanities, ...

These words can all apply to the disciplines we call “the humanities”: literature, languages, philosophy, religion, history — the academic disciplines that, arguably, have the farthest global reach ...

Adam N. Chiocco ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Pforzheimer House. Theo W. Tobel ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy and Neuroscience concentrator in ...

A recent study by North Carolina State University researchers finds that teaching critical thinking skills in a humanities course significantly reduces student beliefs in "pseudoscience" that is ...

While researching theory on aesthetic appreciation and artistic analysis in preparation for a trip to Greece with the Western Humanities Sequence last fall, I read a few chapters from a 2015 ...

Stereotypes abound about liberal arts degrees leading to low-paying jobs, despite research showing that humanities majors earn salaries comparable to students in many other majors. Authorities from ...

A recent study finds that teaching critical thinking skills in a humanities course significantly reduces student beliefs in 'pseudoscience' that is unsupported by facts. A recent study by North ...