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Spring 2013

Cover Story

Literature Humanities Turns 75

Exploring the origins and evolution of the course and the way it is taught, the perspectives of the faculty who teach it and the experiences of the students who take it.

Spring 2013 Issue Cover
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  • Senior Fund 2013 Launch Photo Album
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  • Rachel Nichols ’03 Interview
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  • Clefhangers Celebrate 25 Years

Features

Students and Faculty Embrace Classic Readings, Modern Technology

“The course is not a museum-like visit.  It’s about the interrogation of texts.”

By Timothy P. Cross ’98 GSAS

Faculty Find Lit Hum Challenging, Fulfilling

“The course is a marriage of methodologies and the idiosyncrasies of the individual instructor.”

By Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA

Lit Hum for Life

“I left Columbia with an understanding of the power of asking the right questions.”

By Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts

Alumni Book Club Carries On the Tradition

“The idea is to further our education and what we started in Lit Hum.”

By Nathalie Alonso ’08

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