An Invitation to Teach IHUM
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The IHUM program continues a long and distinguished tradition of freshman liberal arts courses at Stanford. IHUM offers a rich array of interdisciplinary and disciplinary courses for the freshman General Education Requirement.
IHUM fosters faculty collaboration in course design and teaching. The annual process of curriculum development supports faculty in initiating new course ideas and locating possible partners for team-teaching.
Resources provided for IHUM faculty include honoraria, academic technology assistance, enhancement funds, and post-doctoral fellows assigned to each course.
What faculty are saying...
IHUM provides a place where we can discuss the richness of the humanities and engage students in their first year when they are especially open to thinking about new ideas.
Harry and Michele Elam
Departments of Drama and English
The IHUM sequence, as no other set of courses, invites students to consider in a disciplined and systematic fashion what it means to be human.
Grisha Freidin
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
IHUM gives faculty an opportunity to show students what there is to love about the humanities and gives students an opportunity to discover it, before it is too late for them to take other classes.
Josh Landy
Department of French and Italian
IHUM asks all students to engage in the most basic and necessary task that the humanities offers: engaging with unfamiliar cultures and responding intelligently.
Gabriella Safran
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures