Humanities Courses - Topics

Do teaching awards count in a humanities promotion file? Is it fair to assign a five hundred page novel in a ten week term? Should an undergraduate humanities course be graded on essays or exams? How do you teach a text that half the seminar finds offensive? How do you build a seminar around primary sources instead of a textbook? How many books can a humanities seminar honestly assign in one term? Why do lecture courses with two hundred students still need discussion sections? What belongs in a syllabus beyond the reading list and the grading policy? Grading essays consistently across a large humanities course is close to impossible What do alt-ac employers actually want from a humanities PhD? What does the humanities job market look like outside academia? What is the difference between an annotated bibliography and a literature review? The language requirement is the first thing cut from a humanities degree Do survey courses still work when every fact is searchable? What is the point of a required survey course nobody wants to take? How much should a graduate seminar prepare students for the job market? Why do hiring committees at liberal arts colleges still value publications most? How are humanities departments funded when enrolment drops but the major stays? Why is the seminar still the default teaching format in every humanities department? The lecture course survives because nobody can afford enough seminars Can a humanities course be taught fully online without losing discussion? Should graduate programmes publish where their students end up working? Six weeks of summer Greek is not enough and everyone knows it What ethnic studies loses when it is folded into a broader diversity requirement Should the Latin language exam for a PhD be pass or fail or a real hurdle?