Humanities
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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/