Humanities

Bibliography

Ayers Edward L., Nesbitt, Scott, and Murre Martindale. "New Research Opportunities through Technology," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/edayers/summary.htm

Fraser, Cassandra L., Aultman, Jennifer, and Malewitz, Raymond. "Designing Matter: Fusing Science and Humanities Approaches to Address Real World Challenges," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/cassandrafraser/summary.htm

Graff, G. "Withholding the Academic Disciplines from Undergraduates," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/Conference_04/Gerald_Graff/Withholding_Academic_Disciplines_from_Undergraduates.htm

Graff, G. (1970) Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Graff, G. (1979) Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Graff, G. (1987) Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Graff, G. (1992) Beyond the Culture Wars; How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education. New York: W.W. Norton.

Graff, G. (2003) Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Hertz, David. "How the Humanities Can Help Save Classical Music," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/Conference_04/Fine_Performing_Arts/David_Hertz_Paper.htm

Hertz, David and Maiorino, Giancarlo. "Teaching Within Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Contexts in the Performing and Fine Arts," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/Conference_04/Fine_Performing_Arts/Fine_Performing_Arts.htm

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. NEA Research, Division Report #46. June 2004. http://www.nea.gov/pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf

Riva, Massimo. "In the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences: Creative New Modes of Scholarly Activity," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/massimoriva/summary.htm

Schiller, F. (1994) On the Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters (reprint). Reprint. Wilkinson, E.M. and Willoughby, L.A. (eds.) New York: Oxford University Press.

Turner, Patricia A. "Preparing an Educated Citizenry: Integrative Models of Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/patturner/summary.htm

Woods, Ellen. "Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships in Undergraduate Education," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/ellenwoods/summary.htm

Exemplary Programs and Practices

Designing Matter, a common course at University of Virginia: a collaborative learning experiment involving students and faculty from numerous departments and disciplines. The course explores cutting edge research in science and other matter related fields, along with implications for society too.
Website (featuring work by participating artists): http://www.designingmatter.net

Digital Humanities Initiatives at Brown University:
Decameron Web http://brown.edu/decameron
Pico Project http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/
Virtual Humanities Lab http://golf.services.brown.edu/projects/VHL/
Digital Pinocchio http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/DP/
N2K: Narratives for the Next Millennium http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/n2k/
Heliotropia: Forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation, online journal at Brown University http://heliotropia.org/

The Library Award for Undergraduate Research, University of Washington: http://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward/

LiTgloss, University at Buffalo
A collection of texts of literary or cultural interest, written in languages other than English, and expertly annotated so as to facilitate comprehension by English-speaking readers. The collection consists of over a hundred texts in almost two dozen languages. Although French, Spanish and German are the best represented, LiTgloss aims to include substantial numbers of texts from as many languages as possible.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/

Stanford University Introduction to the Humanities Program (IHUM): http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/ihum

Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/index.html.
See also Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/

The Tracking Cultures Program, The University of Texas at Austin: Provides interdisciplinary study abroad opportunities within the humanities. www.utexas.edu/cola/study_abroad/goto/study_abroad/tracking_cultures/

UC Arabic Without Walls Distance Language Learning Program developed by the UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching, The National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University and Near Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley: http://arabicwithoutwalls.ucdavis.edu/aww/