Tag: humanities

Why the job market fears the humanities

Oh, sociology … What do you plan on doing with that degree?  It’s a question that plagues every student in the social sciences and humanities....

Inside the office: Professor Laura O’Connor on connection

For Laura O’Connor, retiring and moving out of her office at 144 Murray Krieger Hall means dealing with the large collection of books she’s...

UCI community rallies to save the humanities after massive cuts

Roughly 200 faculty members and students gathered in the Humanities Quad to rally against budget cuts to the UC Irvine School of Humanities for...

The undervalued humanities

Often dismissed as soft or easy, the academic pursuits associated with humanities are deeply undervalued in today’s world. As the number of students enrolling...

UCI’s Ronke Olabisi Shares Inspiring Academic Journey

The UC Irvine conversational series What Matters to Me and Why (WMMW) features faculty members addressing their lives on a personal level, often through...

As UCI admits too many students, curriculum may suffer

Editor's note: This editorial was updated on 1/20/2025 to remove the incorrect use of the term "over-enrollment." The University of California prides itself on “expanding...

All of UCI’s a stage for professor Julia Reinhard Lupton

UC Irvine’s Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative has brightened the UCI campus for 10 years with various events for students and community...

Oh, You Think YOU Have It Tough? Try Being a STEM Major.

STEM students are better than all of you. I am better than all of you. Please recognize that so that I feel good about my negative eight hours of sleep and constant state of exhaustion-induced psychosis. 

UCI Center for Medical Humanities Hosts Work-in-Progress Series Event With Ph.D. Candidate Gwen Pare 

The UCI Center for Medical Humanities hosted a talk titled “Derek Walcott’s Omeros, The Wound of Slavery and Crafting Resistance” via Zoom on Oct....

The Women of the Black Panther Party Want Their Stories to Be Heard

UCI’s School of Humanities hosted a small panel of women who shared their unique experience as former members of the Black Panther Party to...

UCI School of Humanities Hosts Stanley Fish to Talk About ‘Impossible Things’

A law professor at the University of Florida Stanley Fish came to UCI to give a talk titled “Impossible Things: Blind Submission, Anti-professionalism, Interdisciplinarity,...

UCI Illuminations Holds First of Four Part Event on Black Brazilian Cinema

UCI Illuminations hosted the first of four hybrid events centered around Black Brazilian Film in the Humanities Gateway Screening Room on April 6. This...

UCI Illuminations Hosts Author Viet Thanh Nguyen

UCI Illuminations, an arts and culture initiative established by Chancellor Howard Gillman, hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University of Southern California professor Viet Thanh...

We Can Still Save the Humanities

In the recent decade, there’s been a gradual shift from the humanities toward science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). College students are increasingly choosing...

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