Dive into the past and you will see this theme will emerge time and again: the purpose of studying history, philosophy, and poetry is to help us lead better lives and be better people. The humanities are an education for the soul.
Placed next to these paeans to education, the aims of the "Theology of Dostoevsky" course are crippling. Reading Dostoevsky will help students will learn how to "contextualize literature within its anthropological milieu." Dostoevsky will teach them to see "the unique interpretive problems inherent in studying creative genres" and discussing his works will help them "communicate more effectively, verbally and in writing, about theological literature." That is the purpose of reading a man regularly called the best novelist in human history! We read him to "meet academics standards for writing and notation!"
How painfully limited.
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Are College Lectures Unfair? - The New York Times - 0 views
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This article summarizes various studies that show that active learning if more effective than the traditional lecture, particularly for women and students of color.
How Nonemployed Americans Spend Their Weekdays: Men vs. Women - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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This article discusses how unemployed men and women spend their time during a typical day. What's most interesting is how the data is represented visually.
Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Another interesting NY Times GIS map of "wellness" by county in the United States. I am using the term "wellness" not in a health context but instead as a summary description of their six data points: education, median household income, unemployment rate, disability rate, life expectancy, and obesity.
For Big-Data Scientists, 'Janitor Work' Is Key Hurdle to Insights - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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New York Times article about some of the challenges of "big data" analysis - particularly the data cleanup needed to make useful inferences.
Map of 73 Years of Lynchings - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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An effective but somewhat disheartening use of GIS to map the frequency of lynchings in the Southern U.S. by county from 1877 to 1950.
Parsing Ronald Reagan's Words for Early Signs of Alzheimer's - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Interesting article about an analysis of Ronald Reagan's news conferences in an attempt to determine early signs of dementia. The "digital humanities" aspect is that the same linguistic analysis has been use to study word use patterns by novelists.
Google Cultural Institute Puts Us All Onstage - The New York Times - 0 views
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This article describes the Google Cultural Institute, which provides immersive views of artistic performances.
Jupyter Book - Home - 0 views
DSHR's Blog: Personal Pods and Fatcat - 0 views
DSHR's Blog: Cloud For Preservation - 0 views
The Scholar's Stage: Teaching the Humanities as Terribly as Possible - 0 views
The Scholar's Stage: How to Save the (Institutional) Humanities - 0 views
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A few years after I graduated my alma mater decided to overhaul their generals program. After much contentious wrangling over what students should or should be forced to study, the faculty tasked with developing the general curriculum settled on an elegant compromise: there would be no generals. Except for a basic primer course in mathematics and writing, general credit requirements were jettisoned entirely. Instead, faculty made a list of all majors, minors, and certificates offered at the university, and placed each into one of three categories: science and mathematics, the humanities, and professional skills. From this point forward all students would be required to gain a separate qualification in each of the three categories.
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