In any academic field, research advances tend to percolate naturally to higher education in that field. In recent years, there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of courses and degree programmes in humanities computing. This paper presents some reflections on the status of humanities computing in higher education, in terms of curricula, degrees, and international student and staf...

Recent innovations taking place in the digitization technology combined with the rapid proliferation of cyber infrastructure have been revolutionizing the way of preserving, transmitting, and exchanging knowledge in all fields of science. This newly emerging modus operandi, eventually liberating the knowledge heretofore confined within the terrain of each university, library, and museum into on...

Prologue Can Humanities Be Taught? This special issue of The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine is a happy occasion for its editors. The Program for Humanities in Medicine was established in 1983 to remind medical care personnel, nurses and physicians, students and faculty, of the unmeasurable aspects of medicine. A major aim, as yet unfulfilled, was to encourage faculty in the clinical disci...

humanities is the oldest area of study that revolves around the study of human beings, what makes us human and our historical development, and what we are expected to do. this discipline deals with human behavior, human nature, social and political values. humanities comprise of various disciplines that include art, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, religious and ethics among others. all t...