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The Human Experience

Being • Learning • Becoming

A laboratory for research-driven, collaborative, and publicly facing projects built to explore and enhance life in the community and beyond.

The Department of Public & Applied Humanities works to translate the personal enrichment of humanities study into public enrichment and the direct and tangible improvement of the human condition.

Through research-driven, collaborative, and publicly facing projects built to explore and enhance life in the community and beyond, our students and scholars convert understanding into action for the measurable betterment of society.

The department is fundamentally experimental, entrepreneurial, and transdisciplinary, and focuses on public and private opportunities that straddle rather than fall between purviews, or are confined by them.

Madison

Meet Madison

Madison wants to make a difference in the world. She is balancing her career plans with a degree in Applied Humanities/Public Health and Law.


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April 11, 2024

The American Council of Learned Societies has highlighted the Department of Public & Applied Humanities as a case study for change in higher education. Click …

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Madison Doser
B.A.
Applied Humanities
2022
B.A.
Law
2022
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Nic Griffin
B.A.
Applied Humanities (Business Administration)
2021
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B.A.
Applied Humanities
2020
B.A.
Communication
2020