We are thrilled to announce that the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences has been awarded a three-year, $750,000 renewal grant from the Mellon Foundation to continue the work of HumanitiesX, DePaul University's Experiential Learning Collaborative. HumanitiesX supports substantive collaboration between faculty, community partners, and students, focused on bringing humanities methods to bear on today's most pressing social challenges.
At the core of HumanitiesX is a year-long fellowship that engages teams of faculty and community partner organizations to design new, community-engaged, experiential humanities courses. HumanitiesX teams participate in activities with the Collaborative over the winter and spring quarters to develop new courses, which are taught the following fall. Each team is also matched with a Student Fellow, who assists with designing and managing project-based work in their team's course and writes public-facing articles about the Collaborative's work.
Launched in 2021, HumanitiesX enters a new phase with this renewal, with several key changes to our fellowship model:
- HumanitiesX courses are now offered in the autumn quarter (formerly spring).
- HumanitiesX courses may now be co-taught or taught by a single instructor. We now offer two co-teaching team fellowships and three single-instructor team fellowships each year.
- HumanitiesX welcomes applicants to propose courses focused on any of our three themes: Immigration and Migration, The Environment: Crisis and Action, or Democracy and Rights.
- Faculty from within and outside the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences may now apply, so long as they use humanities methods in their teaching and research.
The call for applicants to join this year's Collaborative cohort, which launches in January 2025, is now open. Please visit our Fellowship Application page for details about the application process and a downloadable application packet. Complete applications must be submitted to the HumanitiesX coordinator, Amanda Lautermilch, by November 25, 2024.
To learn more about the community-engaged, experiential humanities courses created by past HumanitiesX fellows, visit the course showcases on the HumanitiesX website.
