Humanities Bulletin Board
“Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.”
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
A Liberal Arts Degree Is More Valuable Than Learning Any Trade
Vivek Ranadive, CEO and founder of real-time computing company TIBCO, explores the application and value of a liberal arts degree in a digital marketplace.
Is Philosophy the Most Practical Major?
This article in the Atlantic discusses the advantages of majoring in philosophy. The author, Edward Tenner, is a historian of technology and culture. He was a founding advisor of Smithsonian's Lemelson Center and holds a Ph.D in European history.
Dentistry and Art: Unlikely Bedfellows?
Find out how Visual Arts professor Trent Burkett came to develop a new course called "Pre-Dental Ceramics" for Pacific's pre-dental students. The final project called for students to create a "tooth-based" sculptural project-a creative larger interpretation of teeth built in porcelain and fired in a kiln.
Read the full article here: Routine Dentist Appointment Leads to New Course in Predental Ceramics
Dr. Lehmann's Suggested Reading List
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Heidi Durrow)
Half the Sky (Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudun)
The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Nickle and Dimed in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)
This is Your Brain on Music (Daniel J. Levitin)
Sailing to Byzantium (Robert Silverberg)
Poetry by Ranier Maria Rilke
Shakespeare!