Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Her online hybridized problem-based learning project called the virtual mystery web-tool has recently been awarded funding to expand to other anthropological sub-disciplines and across disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The post Sherry Fukuzawa first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Her online hybridized problem-based learning project called the virtual mystery web-tool has recently been awarded funding to expand to other anthropological sub-disciplines and across disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The post Sherry Fukuzawa first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy. Fellows join an engaged alumni community of PhDs working across a variety of sectors. All scholars must be authorized to work legally in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2021

The STEM disciplines and social sciences significantly influence the trajectory of American society and the global community in ways that other sectors and fields of exploration cannot match. Technology keeps advancing exponentially, making this an inspiring and high-stakes era. Is it worth it? How do we make it more effective?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science. Some college instructors seem to be aware of their human frailty.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.” This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2025

With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The current, common narrative used in these initiatives pits the liberal arts as an alternative to technology and science. The liberal arts are a humanizing complement and force multiplier. In a future marked by automation and inequality, both human-centered skills and digital know-how will be needed. That is simply wrong.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. Finding a Balance Writing centers need to find a balance between introducing AI into the writing process and keeping the human support that every writer needs, argues Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S For example, social science graduates at the Indiana college depicted in the following graph enter the “finance and insurance” industry more frequently than any other industry.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course. This lets me lead students into the topic by way of discussing culture in non-human primates. Gorillas in the class While the exercise could be adapted to any non-human primate species, I chose gorillas.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In fact, admissions officers say students who wish to gain admission to competitive universities often feel compelled to take the course, even if they intend to major in social science or humanities. Those interested in social sciences, communications and psychology pursue data science or statistics.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. She holds an M.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Jennifer Rich is an associate professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University and the executive director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights. S tudents revealed that they were eager to spend more time with the experience.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

The modules cover remarkable ground: Humanity and Natural Disasters; Intersections of Social Media & Science; Pandemics, Inequality and the Environment; and Coping & Caring for our Communities. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter. She is the author of several books, including One Goal.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

But that’s not enough, he told me in an interview: “You need to also focus on what we humans can do that machines cannot do.” That means imbuing students with creativity, empathy, a sense of ethics, historical knowledge and an ability to work in teams — skills that are best acquired through the humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion. For the past 25 years, U.S. Who would argue against it?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A recent explosion of research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences has illuminated new knowledge about how children learn. The natural human drive to learn cannot flourish when children are hungry, tired, sick, or living in unsafe, chaotic, unstable conditions.

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ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships. Terman earned her B.A.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Of our survey respondents, 90 percent agreed that humanity has the ability to mitigate climate change, 78 percent believed in the power of individual action and more than 80 percent were motivated to be part of the climate change solution. Amid the anxiety, however, are notable glimmers of hope.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

The actual names may vary: We have the College of Arts and Sciences, while Stanford — where I earned my Ph.D. in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. This essay describes our attempt to work through the panic and turn our concerns into a learning opportunity.

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Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” ” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships humans have. However, for much of my career, I have studied non-human animals (mostly primates).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. I would like to believe this is a personal battle, but this drive toward perfectionism also impacts our students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Again, sometimes that’s good; it’s a wonderful thing to dwell on the various wonders of what makes our humanity universal. And finally, sometimes it makes sense to set our local contexts aside and explore the universality of a particular content area such as math, or physics, or social science.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

English, humanities, and social science classes build these skills, as do projects and presentations in technical courses, where professors and peers provide feedback. Technicians need to be able to listen and read to develop an understanding of customers’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Around 370 B.C.,

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APSA Educate

JUNE 7, 2024

A New Class Assignment appeared first on APSA.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Through the Institutional Partner program, De Gruyter is a trusted partner to support the goals, values, and brand of centers, societies, and organizations like the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

All the students in this landmark CUNY study had intended to major in non-STEM fields that didn’t require algebra, such as criminal justice and the humanities, and for which college statistics would fulfill their math requirements.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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