{"id":2001,"date":"2020-08-24T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:39:42","slug":"a-chapter-of-renewal-for-the-hsa-department-by-sean-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/2020\/08\/24\/a-chapter-of-renewal-for-the-hsa-department-by-sean-wu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Chapter of Renewal for the HSA Department\u201d by Sean Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During these unprecedented times, the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts welcomes new leadership, new faces and new initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Steinberg, professor of political science and environmental policy and Malcolm Lewis Chair of Sustainability and Society, steps down after three excellent years as department chair overseeing the department\u2019s growth and increasing its visibility across the Claremont Consortium. During his tenure,<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HSAself-study\"> the department produced a self-study<\/a> that highlights a number of accomplishments, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Department courses attract an average of 200 off-campus enrollments from the other Claremont Colleges every year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thirty-one HSA courses explicitly explore links between STEM and society, on topics such as \u201cMedicine, Healing and Religion,\u201d \u201cScience in Fiction\u201d and \u201cWater, Culture, and Technology.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In HSA\u2019s Core course (HSA10)\u2014offered as a dozen sections featuring different topics and common writing requirements\u201498% of HMC students were able to enroll in one of their top two section choices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A content analysis of 134 HSA department course syllabi finds that diversity and\/or equity comprise a central theme in 44% of the department\u2019s courses. A global (non-U.S.) perspective is featured in 48% of a representative sample of assigned readings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Stepping in as HSA department chair is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/faculty-staff\/ken-fandell\/\">Ken Fandell<\/a>, professor of art. Fandell is managing departmental changes that will address ongoing challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the long term, Fandell looks forward to continuing the department\u2019s expansion in exciting new ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department is committed to providing the most enriching experience for students in their off-campus settings. Faculty members have been working this summer to modify humanities courses to offer online versions, opening up new possibilities and ideas. In addition, the department welcomes two new members to its faculty who will bring new courses to campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/faculty-staff\/anup-gampa\/\">Anup Gampa<\/a>, assistant professor professor of psychology, focuses on the relationship between an individual\u2019s psychology and, particularly, social movements, racism and capitalism. His research links social movements with a decrease in individuals\u2019 negative implicit attitudes toward marginalized people. Ekaterina Babintseva, Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, is a historian of science and technology. She is interested in the ways mid-century psychologists mobilized computing and mathematical methods of inquiry to describe, model and simulate human cognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HMC arts programming also will move online, and organizers will introduce a new online gallery platform during the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sean Wu \u201923 manages the blog for the department.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During these unprecedented times, the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts welcomes new leadership, new faces and new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hsa-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/hsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}