Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Academics
Exciting interdisciplinary and collaborative courses that enrich study and help students to contribute to a broad community of scholars
Academics
Exciting interdisciplinary and collaborative courses that enrich study and help students to contribute to a broad community of scholars
Courses at by the Cogut Institute are taught by faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences from across Brown University and highlight cutting-edge research on a diverse array of topics. Courses are interdisciplinary in nature and often team taught, giving students the opportunity to enrich their own work through learning from and with others outside their home fields.
For Undergraduate Students
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Each semester, the Cogut Institute presents a new roster of courses, many of which are taught by postdoctoral fellows at the institute. These original courses allows students to explore cutting-edge research with new scholars who are making waves in their fields.
The center offers an Early Modern World concentration, which promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to historical cultures around the world between the waning of feudalism and the arrival of global industrial capitalism, from the 1300s to the end of the 1800s.
The center, which is devoted to research and pedagogy on the more-than-human world and unfolding environmental crises, offers a catalog of relevant courses for students with an interest in the environmental humanities.
For Graduate Students
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The Cogut Institute offers innovative, team-taught graduate courses that explore cross-disciplinary topics and experiment with forms of collaborative work. These are open to all students while also fulfilling a requirement of the Doctoral Certificate in Collaborative Humanities.
The program advances forms of inquiry through teaching models and student practices that experiment with group presentations, collaborative online discussions, co-authored seminar papers, and other forms of intellectual partnership.
The program offers students a foundational understanding of the field of Digital Humanities, including basic theory and debates, and the skillset to design and execute their digital humanities research project in the context of their doctoral work.