Humanities programs are rebounding after a decline in the past decade. Between 2012 and 2020, bachelor\u2019s degrees in the humanities dropped by nearly 16 percent, reinforcing the narrative that their future is uncertain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, with renewed interest and growth, ACC is one of the schools leading the charge through the Great Questions Seminar program<\/a>. The unique college readiness course, supported by a generous Teagle Foundation grant, is an alternative to the traditional EDUC 1300 Student Success course. Instead of standard textbooks and classroom materials, the seminar focuses on discussion-based learning centered around transformative texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The College will be participating and hosting events throughout October for this program and growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, October 2, at 1 p.m, ACC faculty member and founder of the Great Questions program, Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr., will join a panel of experts for a virtual forum to explore the true state of the humanities. <\/a>The forum also aims to dismantle myths about employment prospects for humanities majors, as data shows their unemployment rate is similar to other college graduates, at around 3 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then from Wednesday, October 23 to Thursday, October 24, ACC hosts the Teagle Foundation Conference at the ACC Highland Campus. The convening will showcase ACC\u2019s Great Questions Seminars<\/a> and provide a forum for faculty leaders to share strategies that strengthen the role of the humanities in general education in the conference program<\/a>. The conference program is free for all attendees. Click here to register, <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Humanities programs are rebounding after a decline in the past decade. Between 2012 and 2020, bachelor\u2019s degrees in the humanities dropped by nearly 16 percent, reinforcing the narrative that their future is uncertain. Now, with renewed interest and growth, ACC is one of the schools leading the charge through the Great Questions Seminar program. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":49138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[246,835,836],"class_list":["post-49137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-to-do-at-acc","tag-great-questions-seminar","tag-humanities","tag-teagle-foundation","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}