Humanities Center
USD's Humanities Center is dedicated to the exploration of the human condition and the limitless ways in which human beings understand and interact with our world.
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Details of the Humanities Center at USD:
Collaborative Research
The collaborative research element aims to initiate, convene and promote exceptional opportunities for student-faculty-community partnerships centered on relevant humanities issues. Activities range broadly from short-term learning occasions to more ambitious and longer-term projects (such as exhibitions, reading groups and symposia). | Knapp Chair of Liberal Arts
Digital Humanities
Digital humanities is a highly collaborative field of scholarship and pedagogy that blends new technologies with rigorous humanities scholarship. Goals of the digital humanities element fall into three overlapping categories: faculty development; project development; and pedagogy/curriculum development.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum
The interdisciplinary curriculum element is dedicated to the development of mechanisms encouraging and fostering novel cooperation involving the humanities and other disciplines/schools within the University of San Diego. The Humanities Center functions as an incubating hatchery, in which interdisciplinary majors, minors and courses, team-taught classes and course clusters are envisaged, nurtured and brought to fruition.
Public Humanities
The Humanities Center provides opportunities for USD not only to organize and coordinate liberal arts initiatives and programs for our campus community, but also to establish partnerships with the broader San Diego community and beyond. In this manner, the Center is engaged in the practice of what is known as “public humanities,” the meeting point of engagement and humanistic study, and manifests its commitment to ensuring the accessibility of the humanities to our wider community. | Illume Speaker Series | Spring 2021 Calendar of Events
Upcoming Events
- Feb2
Baked In: Systemic Racism Around and Within Us Series
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 // 4 p.m.Virtual Event - Feb3
Souls of Black Folks: Poetry, Essays and Readings Series
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 // 4 p.m.Virtual Event - Feb5
USD School of Law Presents The Fire is Upon Us: A Conversation with the Author
Friday, February 5, 2021 // 5 p.m.Via Zoom Webinar & Remo - Feb8
In the News
2019-2020 Humanities Center Annual Report
// December 18, 2020
We are pleased to share with you the Humanities Center's 2019-2020 annual report. USD's Humanities Center is dedicated to the exploration of…
Critical Technology Studies and Artificial Intelligence Initiatives in the Humanities Center
// November 30, 2020
Can artificial intelligence help us achieve a better future? But first, how do we define a better future? And could AI undermine us as futur…
English Alumnus Charlie Daly Co-Authors Book with Father
// November 16, 2020
Tuesday, November 17, 2020, Charlie Daly (English, Class of 2012) celebrates the publication of his father’s memoir, which he co-autho…
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