Student Projects

The Department of Public & Applied Humanities celebrated its 4th annual Bloom, a showcase of student creativity and public engagement across classes and internships. The Spring 2025 event was curated by Professors Jacqueline Barrios, Harris… Learn More

The Spring 2024 iteration of Bloom provided an opportunity to celebrate student creativity and public engagement across classes and internships in the Department of Public & Applied Humanities. The Spring 2024 event was curated by Professors… Learn More

Students in PAH 331 explore a wide range of ways to study video games and, for their final project, they are tasked with identifying a specific audience to whom they will teach one of those approaches. For her project, Lindsey decided to teach about… Learn More

All space is designed, from city sidewalks to beautifully curated homes. This interdisciplinary Senior Honors Thesis project redesigns the University of Arizona's Center for English as a Second Language building to be more interculturally competent… Learn More

The Spring 2023 iteration of Bloom was another insightful celebration of student creativity and public engagement, showcasing projects across PAH classes, internships, and more! The Spring 2023 event was curated by Professors Jacqueline Barrios and… Learn More

Students enrolled in PAH 150A3 "The Greater Outdoors: Improving Health, Wellness, and Creativity by Living Life Outside" get the opportunity to imagine design, implement, and evaluate their own public-facing applied project, creatively connecting… Learn More

In Play: An Interactive Introduction, students think critically about how we conceive of and understand play, including how it can be utilized in a range of contexts, such as facilitating learning, building community, and addressing social… Learn More

In my Spring 2023 iteration of Play: An Interactive Introduction, students worked in groups to develop, test, and analyze a play experience in partnership with community partner the Children’s Museum Tucson (CMT). Working within several of their… Learn More

An annual event, Bloom offers PAH students an opportunity to showcase their public and applied humanities projects, pollinating ideas with peers, faculty, and community partners. This year's event was curated by Professors Jacqueline Barrios and… Learn More

Video games present seemingly endless possibilities for exploration and study. In PAH 150A1, we begin to unravel some of that fascinating complexity by learning about how games are made, how they are studied, and how they affect the world. In his… Learn More

There is a small yet not so small population in the United States that must work at least twice as hard as their peers. I'm referring to college students who are also parents. I wanted to make a meaningful project showing the lives of these students… Learn More

The need for sleep is ubiquitous and part of everyday existence. Like many things that are part of our routine, however, we rarely take the time to consider sleep critically: Why do we sleep? Is sleep different from culture to culture? In what ways… Learn More

The idea of the "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in the 1970s to describe units of culture that replicated in a similar way to genetic material—things like catch phrases, clothing fashions, or slogans. The term has since come to primarily mean… Learn More

From physicians and neuroscientists to poets and songwriters, people around the world have long expressed how even brief immersion in nature can improve the human condition. This course--PAH 150A3 The Great Outdoors: Improving Health, Wellness, and… Learn More

Play is perhaps the most foundational problem-solving and meaning-making practice humans engage in. In PAH 160D1 (Play: An Interactive Introduction), students explore the history of play, it's connections to education and human development, and the… Learn More

In PAH 331 (Video Game Studies: Critical/Cultural Approaches), students engage with a broad range of different game studies theorists and methods. For his Honor's project for the course, Jackson Peters draws on computer game industry scholars as he… Learn More

The UA Memo­r­ial MAP Pro­ject is a humanist ini­tia­tive to doc­u­ment and reconnect with the unique memorials on the Uni­ver­sity of Arizona campus. We have embedded a virtual map of cultural and historical memorials on and around our University… Learn More