Despite pressure for students to choose STEM over the humanities, classes in literature, art and history can provide students with vital life skills and help combat the current epidemic of loneliness.

These are found in humanities classes.” Jen Scanlon, senior vice president and dean for academic affairs, chairs the Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee, which has been investigating ways to ...

A new humanities course on how to make sense of data and apply it to real-world problems has just been awarded $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the organization announced in late ...

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, ...

Last year’s class was made up of veterans with a wide range of experiences, from Vietnam to Lebanon, Desert Storm to Bosnia. They were enlisted and commissioned men and women. Age, rank, service ...

Columnist Kaynath Chowdhury critiques the way STEM courses are taught, attributing low test averages to ineffective teaching methods.

Some worry that interdisciplinary courses in English and environmentalism will cut budgets; others say learning is critical to the planet In response to the threat of global climate change, more ...

For more than 20 years, Oregon Humanities has made a series of college classes available for free to people who either might not be able to afford higher education or who never saw themselves as ...

Chris Yates’ favorite class from his time at UNC in the '90s was a rigorous course based around deep discussion of classic texts on philosophy and history, trying to search for the deepest ...

For 50 years, since the Penn State medical school opened in 1967, its future doctors have been required to take humanities courses right along with their medical classes.

But employers value the skills that humanities majors have. Courses in art, literature, history and philosophy can provide students with life skills they can use outside the classroom too.