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-5 posts tagged "humanities"
Peter Breen | Wednesday, November 9, 2022
On Oct. 27, the Glynn Family Honors Program celebrated the opening of its new, 1,500 square-foot lounge on the second floor of O’Shaughnessy Hall with apple cider and donuts. For the 400 undergraduate students in the Glynn program, the multipurpose common room will serve not only as private study space, but also as a hub
Chancelor Gordon | Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Saint Mary’s introduced the new digital and public humanities minor this fall. The digital and public humanities minor is an interdisciplinary, hands-on field of study that aims to highlight the real-world applications of the humanities field. “Humanities is quite literally the study of what it means to be human and what makes us human. This
Liam Price | Friday, May 13, 2022
In his commencement speech, Miles Folsom plans to speak about willpower. Willpower, he said, can do and has done amazing things, including carrying him from maximum security prison to becoming this year’s Holy Cross College valedictorian. “If you try as hard as you can and you never stop trying, you will be amazed at how
Nicole Caratas | Tuesday, January 30, 2018
As an English writing and humanistic studies double major, I’ve heard it all. “Oh, are you going to teach?” “What are you going to do with that?” “What do your parents think?” “Oh, you’re in easy majors! You just read all of the time!” Nothing bothers me more than the way people are quick to
Christopher Damian | Thursday, October 2, 2014
“I don’t like to hire students who studied accounting. They tend to approach problems narrowly, as though they are clear-cut numerical issues with clear-cut, single-answer solutions. This just isn’t true.” I was a bit surprised to hear this from a partner at a nationally recognized law firm that focused on business law. As a former philosophy