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In June or January: The Myth of Summertime (Summer Snapshot 2018)

August 24, 2018 by Angela O'Neal No Comments

William Carlos Williams once wrote, “In summer, the song sings itself.” Isn’t that a lovely idea? It certainly captured my mood back in May as I danced around the proverbial maypole and looked over the vast expanse of the summer months blooming ahead . . .

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy, Vocational Snapshot Tagged With: humanities, literature, Summer Snapshot 2018

Humanities at ESN This Fall: What Do You Want to See?

July 13, 2018 by Hannah Eagleson 4 Comments

Interested in the humanities, professionally or as an avocation? Tell us what you’d like to see at the blog this fall.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: humanities

Teaching As Relationship (Teaching Tips)

May 26, 2017 by Joshua Shiver No Comments

Last summer I was given the opportunity to teach my first college-level class: a senior-level lecture course on the history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. I frankly wasn’t that nervous and I went into the course thinking that my job consisted of a simple two-step process where I simply downloaded information into my students’ brains and then challenged them to think critically about the past and its connection to the present.

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Filed Under: Humanities, Life in the Academy, Resources for ESN Members, The University Tagged With: history, humanities, teaching, Teaching Tips, Teaching Tips Series Spring 2017

Academic rigor springing from faith

August 18, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

Faculty Stories – Austin Busch offers a taste of academic rigor springing from the faith of and being shared by an Associate Professor of Early World Literature at SUNY Brockport, even when looking at the Bible. To God be the glory!

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Humanities, Interview Tagged With: Austin Busch, bible study, christian scholarship, english, faculty interview, Financing the American Dream, humanities, inductive Bible study, InterVarsity Alum, interviews, Lendol Calder

Time to “Uncover”

August 17, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV 5 Comments

InterVarsity Alum: Dr. Lendol Calder on “Uncoverage” is an apt video for us as we begin a new term, asking ourselves how we dialog (dare I even say provide a framework for studies in a particular discipline) and learn from (or even teach as) “the experts”.  Yes, I think this perspective is applicable beyond the field of history 🙂 […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Humanities, Interview, Life in the Academy Tagged With: dialogue, Dr. Lendol Calder, faculty interview, history, humanities, inductive Bible study, InterVarsity Alum, interviews, Uncoverage

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