Now that we are at the midterm, you have settled into some routines and become familiar navigating both the campus and your schedule. You are in the process of choosing your courses for next term, and you may thinking in more detail about your future and your major. I hope that you will consider the spaces where you are a deep and engaged learner and how you will integrate them into your college education. With that in mind, I am sharing a few resources.
As part of the English Department, I know most about the programs offered through our department, so below are some links to resources that may interest you if you would like to take a writing, humanities, or literature course.
- HuMed Program: Program for people considering medical school but also have interest in humanities studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities for students interested in taking a variety of humanities courses while also selecting an area of deep focus
- English Major or Minor: Spring 2020 offers English courses Narrative Medicine, Writing and Revolution in US Literature, and British Literature (ENG courses) as well as Technical Writing and Fiction Writing (WRT courses)
“Compartmentalization of intellectual life is bad.”
-Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller, author of Narrative Economics
Why study English or humanities? Here’s a recent Washington Post article featuring economists reflecting on the use of narrative in communications and the role of humanities in creating context and understanding for their work.
