Tag: Pedagogy

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Humanities Teaching as Leadership Training: A Study-to-Practice Faculty Development Workshop Series

This spring semester, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative will partner with Kallion Leadership Inc. to host a four-part workshop series open to faculty, graduate students and…

January 24, 2022

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The Medical Humanities Initiative Launches Minor

Georgetown University offers especially fertile terrain for a novel, cross-campus, and critically-minded minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society. This minor brings…

December 14, 2021

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Students Reflect on Prof. Morrison’s course “Race, Representation, and Renaissance”

Kiara Finlay (C ‘22) and Elliot Segnini (C ‘23) share how Prof. Morrison’s ENG 210 class “Race, Representation, and Renaissance” course made them think differently and…

December 14, 2021

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A Reflection on the Course “Race, Representation, and Renaissance”

Meet Professor Amani Morrison The Humanities: Arts, Literature, and Culture (HALC) Core requirement introduces students to the methods of the cultural humanities and arts.…

November 9, 2021

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Spotlight on Humanities Pedagogy: Dr. Ayten Tartici’s “Hyphenated Americans”

Offered through Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies, and the Department of English, Dr. Ayten Tartici's course “Hyphenated Americans” focuses on contemporary…

July 16, 2021

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Public Writing: Translating Humanities Insights into Writing that Makes a Difference

Because much of students’ work after college or graduate school will be in written forms, this course aims to help students succeed by helping them develop the ability to…

July 13, 2021

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Kaitlyn Reynolds (C’21) and Eliza Lafferty (C’20) reflect on Professor Ian Bourland’s “Exiles and Diasporas” Class

One of the most effective projects from “Exiles and Diasporas” was an assignment that encouraged us to trace our own family histories. This project increased buy-in and…

December 18, 2020

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Interdisciplinary Humanities Pedagogy: HALC Faculty Fellows Create New Courses to Meet Demand

"The most helpful aspect of the HALC Faculty Fellows program was, for me, the ways in which it pushed me to rethink assessment in the classroom, and the possibilities for a more…

December 18, 2020

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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Welcomes First Postdoctoral Fellow

Ayten Tartici (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University) joined the Georgetown Humanities Initiative for the 2020–21 academic year as an American Council of Learned…

December 16, 2020

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Interdisciplinary Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds joins Disability Studies Program and Department of Philosophy

Joel Michael Reynolds—a specialist in the philosophy of disability, bioethics, modern European philosophy, and social epistemology—joined Georgetown University as an…

December 15, 2020