Everett Community College

Humanities Center

Mission Statement

The Humanities Center's mission is to foster the Humanities at Everett Community College in a variety of ways, such as facilitating campus- and community-wide discussions of relevant themes from a Humanities perspective, encouraging faculty collaboration on planning new courses for the Humanities program, assisting faculty to voluntarily incorporate these selected themes into their courses, sponsoring a student Humanities conference on campus, and encouraging service-learning opportunities with Humanities and arts organizations.

The Humanities Center 2009-10 Theme

The thematic focus for this year's events and conversations is INQUIRIES.

What is Unity?
What is Patriotism?
What is World Citizenship?

What is Unity? FALL 2009 – Thom Lee (Art Faculty), Coordinator

Why the national motto, E Pluribus Unum? (Out of many, one)? What relationship does unity have to diversity? What role does unity play in a work of art, a piece of writing, or any human creation?

What is Patriotism? WINTER 2010 – Darryl Dieter (Director of Institutional Research), Coordinator

What does patriotism mean for our time? Is it mindless jingoism, or can it be a value-based, critically considered motive for action? Check out the book available free on line at www.truepat.org 

What is World Citizenship? SPRING 2010– Jason Ripper (History Faculty), Coordinator

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? What is our vision of America's place in the world? How do we face the emerging challenges of globalization such as global trade, global pandemics, global warming?

In addition, planning for a number of other Humanities Center events is underway. As dates are confirmed, they will be added to the events calendar link.

For more information, contact Dr. Joyce Walker at jwalker@everettcc.edu.