The Human Experience
Being • Learning • Becoming
Welcome
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.
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.
Recent News
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Judd Ruggill has received the University of Arizona's Distinguished Head/Director's Award. To learn more, click…
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March 6, 2025
Jasmine Linabary has received the 2025 Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship. The award, given by the International Communication Association’s Feminist Scholarship Division, “recognizes and supports those whose early research and…
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Feb. 11, 2025
The Hechinger Report has featured the Department of Public & Applied Humanities in a story titled "Colleges Rebrand Humanities Majors as Job-Friendly." Click…
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Alumni News & Directory
Our majors have gone on to exciting careers around the world in a wide variety of industries.
See what you can do with your degree.
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B.A.
Applied Humanities
2022
B.A.
Law
2022
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B.A.
Applied Humanities
2021
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B.A.
Applied Humanities
2020
B.A.
Communication
2020