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Humanities Writ Large

Faculty and students are redefining the role of the humanities in education

Top 5: Building Better Humanities Courses

Duke professor Michael P. Ryan discusses ways students and others can contribute to the creation of humanities courses

A new humanities class at Duke offers students a rare chance to help shape its curriculum -- a...

A new Duke humanities course brings students into the curriculum-building process

Mellon Foundation grant aims to reverse declining enrollments in the humanities

A new endeavor at Duke University aimed at changing the role of the humanities in...

A Romance studies professor uses mafia films to teach about Italian history and culture

Of the 15 course-advertisement flyers dotting the bulletin board on the second floor of Duke's...

An alternate reality game built in Duke's Greater Than Games Lab provides lessons in capitalism, economics

In life, Matthew Davis was kind of a jerk. A human resources manager for a big corporation, he...

Classics professor Peter Burian, long a champion of the humanities, is retiring

It's Day 1 of Roman Civilization, and...

Duke president presents Caldwell Lecture at NC Humanities ceremony honoring U.S. Rep. David Price

Eudora Welty's 1944 essay "Some Notes on River Country" begins with this memorable line: "...

Humanities Lab project visualizes how European explorers interacted with Tahiti

Emma Ross says "I'm not a techie by any means," but she was among the presenters Friday at Duke'...

With two new hires, Romance Studies strengthens interest in Brazilian Studies

At 19, Gustavo Furtado was tired of his native Brazil's incessant government corruption, urban...

In time of conflict, new faculty member's studies show connections between major religions

In the beginning, Shalom Goldman didn't have much of a future. Goldman began...