Essentials
* Brings together students from all fields in small classes on the liberal arts to work with professors and each other.
* Courses on issues that engage students, and the world, today.
* Students build innovative projects as part of their coursework.
* Each course is also the stage for guest speakers and workshops open to the local community.
Humanities Super Seminar (Union College, NY)
Based on a different topic every year, students from all disciplines engage in reading and analyzing visual and written material, deeply challenging conversations, synthesizing ideas, and creating projects, such as podcast interviews, photographic journals, webpage designs, video projects, set designs, sculptures, visual installations, debates and presentations. Each Humanities Super Seminar includes three speakers or a workshop open to the larger Union and Schenectady, NY, community.
The first Humanities Super Seminar held in spring 2012 was on "Global Activism: Hacking, Leaking, and Whistleblowing." The following are tentative titles for future courses.
2012: Global Activism: Hacking, Leaking and Whistleblowing
2013: In Your Face: The Self in the Digital
2014: Medicine & Humanism
2015: The Law of the City
2016: Trauma and Memory
2017: The World Is my Theatre
The most persuasive messages come from the heart and move people.... This class touched on different areas of humanities, but strongly honed in on the importance of language and culture to facilitate activism.... As college students, we are the future, and we have the ability to make a change wherever it may be needed.”
Dylan Katz-Wicks, Student