How Summer Kim Lee and Uri McMillan help students connect with theory, history and expression
The UCLA English professors reflect on their approaches to classroom discussion and how they aim to build skills for the real world.
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The birth of (Re)Defining Health
A recent UCLA graduate explains the importance of humanities education for aspiring medical practitioners.
Food studies class spurs discussions on consumerism, sustainability, ancient cultures and more
As part of the course, led by ELTS professor Vetri Nathan, students explore food-related narratives from their own lives.
How a Channel Islands excursion brought environmental humanities vividly to life
Doctoral fellow Anatoli Ulyanov reflects on lessons learned during an excursion led by Professor Vetri Nathan.
A community-engaged English composition course is building more confident writers
Students spend 20 hours at local nonprofits; their observations turn into papers for the class
Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities to use UCLA-developed AI system
Professor Zrinka Stahuljak said the technology will have immediate tangible benefits for her, teaching assistants and students.
For these first-year students, writings from the past shed light on issues around today’s AI revolution
A cluster course seminar led by doctoral candidate Jason Araújo provoked discussions on the nature of rapidly changing technology.
Four hands, two hearts, one mission
About 10 years ago, Mariam Janvelyan couldn’t get into UCLA’s already full American Sign Language course, despite a plea to Benjamin Lewis. Luckily, she made it into the class a year later.
In a world shaped by data, what happens to social justice?
A UCLA cluster course draws from the humanities and social sciences to encourage students to examine the impact of statistics and AI in a world that is increasingly being defined by datasets.
New creative writing minor is open to all UCLA undergraduates
A newly established minor will expand the opportunity for UCLA students to receive official credit for their creative writing pursuits. In replacing UCLA’s concentration in creative writing — which had been accessible only to English majors — the new creative writing minor will be open to all undergraduates, making it one of only a few UCLA minors in a creative practice. The minor also is more expansive in subject matter than the concentration was. While the minor requires students to complete two workshops in a core genre —fiction or poetry — students in the minor can pursue such diverse practices…