Three new Graduate Seminars in General Education (GSGEs) to create new courses

Three newly designed Frameworks in the Humanities courses will be offered as Graduate Seminars in General Education in the spring of 2013 to help create undergraduate Frameworks Humanities courses in the General Education Program for 2013-2014. These courses have been designed as part of the Harvard Humanities Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative to examine the role of the humanities and the ways that they are framed, encountered, and taught at Harvard:

• The Art of Reading (English 295a), taught by Professor Homi Bhabha;
• The Art of Listening (Comparative Literature 295/Music 295r), taught by Professors John Hamilton and Alexander Rehding;
• The Art of Looking (History of Art and Architecture 276k), taught by Professors Robin Kelsey and Jennifer Roberts.

The Graduate Seminars in General Education offered in Spring 2013 will play a critical role in the development of the undergraduate courses that will be offered in 2013-2014. Graduate students in these seminars will have the opportunity to work closely with senior faculty in addressing the intellectual questions that drive course development, assignment design, and syllabus construction, as well as over-arching concerns about the role of the humanities at Harvard and in our culture more broadly. Seminar participants will consider how to stimulate and maintain undergraduate interest in the humanities, how to equip students with skills that foster rigorous analysis while building confidence, and how to encourage students to consider an engagement with the humanities as a lifetime pursuit rather than an undergraduate obligation. Thus, these courses go beyond the scope of traditional graduate seminars to offer graduate students valuable opportunities for professional development as scholars, teachers, and humanists. Students will also be encouraged to think beyond their own disciplines through collaborative meetings with other Frameworks Graduate Seminars, joint conversations designed to generate cross-disciplinary exchange and so to create an intellectual community—a humanities commons.

GSGEs may be taken for credit with departmental approval.

Graduate Students may register: http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/graduate-seminars-general-education

For more information, please contact:
Jennifer L. Brady, Ph.D.
Fellow of Academic Research, Division of Arts and Humanities
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