TUCSON, Ariz. — Olivia Howe was hesitant at first to add French to her major in finance at the University of Arizona, fearing that it wouldn’t be very useful in the labor market. Then her language ...

I was happy to see Patricia Nelson Limerick’s lively account of the rewards of engaging in “applied” humanities work (“Tales of Western Adventure,” Careers, May 9). Her work at the Center of the ...

The Humanities Program internship enables students to observe and participate in the social and economic contexts of contemporary cultural production. Students gain academic credit and professional ...

In an apocryphal story, Nasreddin Hodja, a 13th-century folk hero, loses a ring inside his house. He then goes outside to look for it. “Why are you looking outside?” asks his wife, “when you lost it ...

Maxwell Eller is majoring in classics and Arturo Padilla in religious studies for health professionals, both at the University of Arizona. “It helped my attention span in a world of YouTube and ...