When he was president of the Modern Language Association, Michael Bérubé described the myriad challenges facing doctoral education as “a seamless garment of crisis.” That was 2013. I’m reluctant to ...

I t’s finally time for professors to abolish the doctoral seminar in the humanities. I mean the seminars for Ph.D. students that are taught by professors in their own departments. Not because we hate ...

The Humanities Program offers students the opportunity to intensify and expand their undergraduate study by writing an Honors Thesis, which is an independent study with the goal of graduating with ...

Clancy Herbst, who studied engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, hadn’t attended a philosophy seminar until he was in his 60s and his wife, Linda Herbst, suggested he join her for one.

While Yale is already known for having one of the best collegiate humanities programs in the country, faculty in the program continue to work toward its improvement. This academic year, three new ...

The Department of Bioethics will host an open house and information session about its integrated graduate studies (IGS) program, which allows undergraduates to pursue a master’s degree in bioethics ...

Mission: Because democracy demands wisdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities serves and strengthens our Republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history ...

In 2021 Dini Metro-Roland and Dale Brown applied for a NEH Innovations Grant that proposes a three-year NEH Initiatives Grant to form a permanent interdisciplinary project learning committee on the ...

It’s not the typical classroom situation, but then, these are not typical students. Their life journeys have taken them not to colleges and universities, but to one of the 34 facilities within ...

Clancy Herbst, who studied engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, hadn’t attended a philosophy seminar until he was in his 60s and his wife, Linda Herbst, suggested he join her for one.