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Stemm-Humanities Co-Teaching And The Humusities Turn, Hella B. Cohen
Stemm-Humanities Co-Teaching And The Humusities Turn, Hella B. Cohen
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Donna Haraway calls for a new Humanities that attends to the role of this traditionally anthropocentric field on a damaged planet. The Humusities, she offers, empower us to teach at the intersections of observation, speculation, and affective reasoning. This article considers co-teaching and interdisciplinary teaching structures as part of the Humusities model. Drawing from interviews and pedagogical materials of professors who have co-taught STEMM-Humanities classes, student feedback from these sections, and current research on interdisciplinary education, I theorize the possibilities and limitations of the interdisciplinary Humusities at the undergraduate level. The article explores how we translate the tenets of Haraway …
A Medical Humanities Course: A Pertinent Pause On The Medical Beat, Kathleen Welch
A Medical Humanities Course: A Pertinent Pause On The Medical Beat, Kathleen Welch
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This article summarizes the findings of one ethnographic study and demonstrates that, by emphasizing self- reflection and discussion, an interdisciplinary literature and medicine course provides medical students a brief but important, time for retrospection.