The Division of Humanities engages the ideas, texts, images, and language cultures that have shaped human experience across time and place. Fostering new approaches to knowledge, and honing students’ ...

The humanities are an often misunderstood group of majors. Because non-humanities degrees like nursing and business, for example, seem to have a more clear post-collegiate track, some may think that ...

The headline splashed across the digital pages of The New Yorker on February 27 appeared to spell tragedy for humanities education with broad brush strokes: “The End of the English Major.” But as dean ...

A BYU student pauses for a moment in the Education in Zion exhibit, located in the Joseph F. Smith Building on campus. The 290,000 square-foot building houses the College of Humanities. (Emma Everett) ...

A TV program about Bergen-Belsen prompts Rob over at A Comfortable Place to ask whether critics like Matthew Arnold and F.R. Leavis were wrong to believe that studying the humanities makes us better ...

Telling somebody your major can prompt a variety of responses, ranging from impressed gasps to vacant stares. As college students, most of us can probably agree that different fields of study have ...

Humanities professors Michael Call and Brian Croxall have introduced a new video gaming initiative to BYU’s campus. With the support of the College of Humanities, students gather each Monday at 4:00 p ...

Despite the formidable hygienic challenges posed by several events on campus, Princeton faces a far greater threat from ...