Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
At Humanities Day 2024, University of Chicago Deputy Dean and Assoc. Prof. Eric Slauter presented the session about “Human Being and Citizen: A Hands-On Approach to the Humanities Core.” Slauter began by asking the audience questions like: What is the Humanities Core? Why is it foundational to the University of Chicago’s educational mission? How did it come to be? And how has it changed over time? This session enabled participants to experience just one of the many ways that the Humanities Core Curriculum extends beyond the classroom, to appreciate changing approaches to the Humanities over the past century, and to learn about the depth of undergraduate research engagement with the University of Chicago’s Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the Regenstein Library. Slauter showed attendees rare books and manuscripts, including a papyrus fragment of The Iliad, a famous edition of Plato from the 1570s purchased by the first president of the University in 1891, a newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence from 1776, and original posters from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1966 speech on campus.
At Humanities Day 2024, University of Chicago Deputy Dean and Assoc. Prof. Eric Slauter presented the session about “Human Being and Citizen: A Hands-On Approach to the Humanities Core.” Slauter began by asking the audience questions like: What is the Humanities Core? Why is it foundational to the University of Chicago’s educational mission? How did it come to be? And how has it changed over time? This session enabled participants to experience just one of the many ways that the Humanities Core Curriculum extends beyond the classroom, to appreciate changing approaches to the Humanities over the past century, and to learn about the depth of undergraduate research engagement with the University of Chicago’s Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the Regenstein Library. Slauter showed attendees rare books and manuscripts, including a papyrus fragment of The Iliad, a famous edition of Plato from the 1570s purchased by the first president of the University in 1891, a newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence from 1776, and original posters from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1966 speech on campus.
