Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Intersections: Animating Conversations with the Humanities is a 3-year initiative of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida (UF) in the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Throughout the 2017-2020 academic years, the Humanities Center will work to identify shared research interests across the humanities at UF, to connect humanities scholarship to other disciplines, and to support resulting interdisciplinary work.

The core of the Intersections project is the selection of four IntersectionsGroups, interdisciplinary groups from the humanities and allied fields who work together to address grand-challenge questions in their research and teaching. Working in these groups over the course of two years (2018-2020), UF faculty and doctoral students will engage in scholarly exchanges about how values and the complexities of the human condition inform behavior in changing contexts.

These Intersections Groups will each develop one undergraduate general education course proposal for Year 1 of the forthcoming UF Quest program to be implemented campus-wide, as well as identify clusters of existing courses that relate to their grand-challenge questions and developing shared projects across these courses. The resulting Intersections Course Clusters will begin admitting UF undergraduate students in the 2019-20 academic year, to assist students in identifying a range of courses related to their interest in the grand challenge. Students who complete three Intersections Course Clusters within a given challenge question during their undergraduate career will receive formal recognition as Intersections Scholars.

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