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Showing 1 to 20 of 3959 for “"Humanities"”.
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Willa Cather and the Humanities
The last hard rays of a December sun still shone over Red Cloud when I rose to take my leave of the two gracious old ladies who had been Willa Gather's lifelong friends. The last words of the older sister, the Carrie, to whom Willa Cather had dedicated her My Antonia, still sounded in my ears and …
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Student attitudes toward the humanities
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Engineering, 1950.
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Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities
… theoretical interventions in the medical humanities. The first uses Benjamin’s critical theory of art in the age of its technological reproducibility to reveal that the evidence-based biomedical model’s primary function is not to cure patients, but to prescribe politics. The technological …
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Humanities courses in selected Indiana high schools
… school courses registered by school officials as Humanities with the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for twenty Indiana public high schools in the fall of 1971-1972.The study consisted of three phases. First, a review of related literature emphasized actual classroom …
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Museum-worthy smartwatches: A medical humanities perspective
This thesis focuses on the relationships that bind people to their smartwatches along the Sea Point Promenade in the city of Cape Town. The study identifies smartwatches as objects with immense social, personal, and interpersonal traction. Materiality in anthropology is well explored and offers a …
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Arguement in the humanities: A knowledge based approach
… others especially, but not exclusively, in the humanities); (b) I will present a model of argumentation and debate as the theoretical orientation within which the model is developed; and, (c) I will suggest that this approach is a natural development of several strands of research within the …
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The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project
<p>In 2019, the “The Momo Challenge” frightened parents in the United States into believing “Momo” would appear online where she’d lure their children into harming themselves. While this challenge is one of many recent viral hoaxes, “Momo” is not simply a product of our digital age. Known as the …
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Informal communication in the humanities: A qualitative inquiry
… examined the informal communication patterns of humanities scholars. A qualitative inquiry based on in-depth interviews was conducted. Thirty-six scholars from three humanities disciplines--history, philosophy, and literature--participated in various stages of the study. The intent was to find …
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A formative evaluation of the Humanities Faculty Mentorship Programme
… and implement interventions to support them. The Humanities Faculty Mentorship Programme (HFMP) provides psychosocial support through mentoring for students likely to be under-prepared to meet the demands of the University of Cape Town. This paper presents process and outcome evaluations of the …
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Expressive Forms of Topic Modeling to Support Digital Humanities
Unstructured textual data is rapidly growing and practitioners from diverse disciplines are expe- riencing a need to structure this massive amount of data. Topic modeling is one of the most used techniques for analyzing and understanding the latent structure of large text collections. Probabilistic …
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University-Community Partnerships: An Action-Humanities Approach to Addressing Homelessness
… array of resources, taking on an action-humanities approach, which facilitates empowerment of people with lived experiences of homelessness and engages students and faculty in a pedagogy of social responsibility.
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Taiwan music teacher attitudes toward the arts and humanities curriculum.
… toward following the Taiwanese arts and humanities curriculum and the relationship of teacher attitudes to four selected curriculum integration factors. These include (1) The quantity of content areas taught in music class, (2) Teachers' satisfaction of their students' learning outcomes, …
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The construction of Taiwanese aesthetics through arts and humanities textbooks
… as it is presented in the state approved Art and Humanities Textbooks. By looking at how the artworks and artists are framed, where these artworks and artists are from, and which traditions influence the construction of art, I want to find the elements constructing Taiwanese identity presented by …
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Investigating how South African humanities researchers engage with digital archives
… technological developments in the Digital Humanities space, it is unclear that the facilities offered by digital archives support the needs of Humanities researchers in developing countries. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how South African Humanities scholars use digital …
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To know is to empower : Chagos institute of environmental humanities
… proposes the Chagos Institute of Environmental Humanities, a trojan horse with dual agency. While staging an apparent conformity to restrictions and regulations imposed by the UK-US alliance, the Institute quietly and resolutely supports an undercover project of decolonization and empowerment. …
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Education in the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
… Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1966
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Partners in Practice: Contemporary Irish Literature, World Literature and Digital Humanities
… disciplines of world literature and the digital humanities. Employing the world literature theories of Wai Chee Dimock, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova in the critical analysis of works of contemporary Irish literature and Irish literary criticism produced in the period …
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Digital Humanities: a bridge between computer vision and study of art
From Humanities Computing to Digital Humanities, the development of digital technologies has brought many possibilities to the Humanities disciplines, including the exploration of painting research through deep learning. Such research currently focuses primarily on improving algorithmic …
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Communities of Practice as Information Systems: Humanities Scholars and Information Convergence
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
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