A successful humanities course helps students cultivate critical, personally enriching and widely applicable skills, and it immerses them in the exploration of perspectives, ideas and modes of thought ...

A University of Delaware English professor, Matt Kinservik, integrated AI into the classroom by having students generate an essay with a chatbot. In one session, students gathered to share the ...

Writing is a much-prized skill and a difficult one to master and, while some are naturally gifted in stringing sentences together, we all need to take the time to learn the craft. Whether you want to ...

Perhaps the greatest challenge to academe in the current political environment is the ascendancy of a “post-truth,” “alternative fact,” “fake news” culture, in which claims are detached from evidence ...

Writing is a major component of the Core Humanities program. It is also an essential skill that will help you to succeed in other courses and in your life beyond college. People who can express ...

Cal State Los Angeles freshman Jorge Pivaral was not surprised that a placement exam he took last year showed he needed help writing at a college level. After all, in his Los Angeles high school ...

Math major Nicquela Roach says she expected her first-year writing classes to be “just a lot of long papers.” They weren’t. In fact, Roach’s College Writing II professor broke the ice by having ...

When Emily Cataneo and Arshia Simkin graduated from their Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing program in2019, they realized there weren't many opportunities outside of a university setting to ...

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The news is such a massive facet of our daily existence. We're bombarded with an overwhelming amount of information, much of it delivered by talking heads trying to tell us which facts actually matter ...