Seminars

Global and Interdisciplinary Core Curricula

Year Founded 2011

Seminar # 741

StatusActive

Purpose: To collectively explore the pedagogical purpose and best practice approaches to interdisciplinary and global humanities “core” at the level of higher education to meet the challenges of the emerging world. A major challenge to teaching humanities today is how to rethink its pedagogy in such a way that students not only learn about different cultures of the world but learn from them to think critically about the way each of us understand, experience, and broaden our own culture. This Seminar welcomes the participation of faculty and administrators from Columbia and beyond, as well as select invested students, to 1) help frame the kinds of questions that most demand humanity’s collective concern in this new age of interdependence; 2) to identify those classics—including seminal advances in contemporary sciences where advisable—from throughout the world’s traditions that will help bring those concerns into sharpest focus; and 3) to rethink from a fresh perspective the institutional structures and resources by which this new generation of interdisciplinary “core” courses may be most effectively implemented.

Chair/s

Rachel E. Chung

Gareth D. Williams

Rapporteur/s

Veronica Hylton

External Website

Conference Registration

Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

23
Apr

April 23, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Symposium

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

05
Mar

March 5, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

BacchaeThe Story of Shun, and the Ramayana

Scheduled

12
Feb

February 12, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Discussion of the Ramayana

Speaker/s

Rachel McDermott, Barnard College

Scheduled

12
Nov

November 12, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

“Reading” Shun

Scheduled

14
Oct

October 14, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Scheduled

16
Sep

September 16, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Introducing Symposium

Speaker/s

Rachel Chung, Columbia University

Gareth Williams, Columbia University

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