Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's been a sharp drop in the number of students majoring in the humanities. urbazon/E+ via Getty Images Stereotypes abound ...

A liberal arts education is often derided, but the humanities promote the kind of critical thinking that’s needed in an AI world.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

For years, English majors were mocked as useless. Now, AI is giving them some momentum in the job market, while computer ...

It’s a question I keep seeing in faculty conversations on Twitter and elsewhere: Where are the examples of transformative online classes in the humanities? Academe has moved from the pedagogical ...

As I sat in my general chemistry lecture waiting for the professor to start, I overheard a very peculiar conversation. One student said, “I don’t know why med school forces us to take a year of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Wayfinder Program at Calvin University believes that studying the greats— Plato, Picasso and Pericles, for example— makes you a better, more enlightened person. "If you know ...

In February 1937, a series of letters to The Daily Princetonian’s editor responded to a student proposal of a ...

Browsing this year's course catalog, many students may have noticed the five classes marked HMAN. These Humanities seminars are being offered by the Cogut Center for the Humanities and are new this ...