Text messages: 'HUM sequence' covers 2,500 years of civilization

Video feature: Text messages: 'HUM sequence' covers 2,500 years of civilization .

In Princeton's yearlong humanities sequence — team-taught by professors from a variety of academic disciplines — students are immersed in texts that span 2,500 years of civilization. In this video, faculty and students expand on how this supercourse creates opportunities for looking at the world in new and diverse ways.

Video feature: Freshmen delve into a humanities 'blockbuster' course .

"Two semesters. 10 professors. 3,000 years of culture." It's not a film trailer, but the catchphrase used to describe a "blockbuster" course at Princeton for freshmen titled "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture from Antiquity to the Modern Period." A video offers comments from students enrolled in the course.

Princeton establishes a center for scholars in Athens .

Princeton University's tradition of deep commitment to the humanities has long been connected to Greece and Hellenic culture, from antiquity to the present. On Tuesday, Nov. 1, the University added a formal home base for Princeton scholars in Greece with the opening of the Princeton University Athens Center for Research and Hellenic Studies. Three years in the planning, the center is led by the University's Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

Schor named chair of the Humanities Council .

Esther “Starry” Schor, the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies and professor of English, has been appointed chair of Princeton's Humanities Council.

Video feature: Performing opera at Princeton: An interdisciplinary experience .

For students who want to study and perform opera, coming to Princeton University allows them to pursue their musical interests while broadening their intellect with a liberal arts education. A wide variety of opera styles are studied and performed by Princeton students, and early opera (especially from the Baroque period) is a particular strength that has emerged from the Department of Music.

Scholars join Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts .

Five new postdoctoral scholars have joined the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts this year: Nijah Cunningham, Stefan Eich, Grace Helton, Monica Huerta and Chloë Kitzinger. The Cotsen and faculty fellows meet regularly in the Joseph Henry House for informal and formal discussion, seminars and lectures. The full complement of 12 postdoctoral fellows is drawn from a range of disciplines in the humanities, related social sciences and natural sciences. The Cotsen Fellows for 2016-19 were selected from a pool of more than 650 applicants in 18 disciplines.

Video feature: Princeton Student Colony .

A platform and a tent in a very public place — near the Dinky station — make up the Princeton Student Colony, which has grown out a class being team-taught by artist and ecologist Fritz Haeg and architect Daniel Wood, visiting lecturers in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Princeton Atelier. The site is "colonized" by the nine students who are making decisions about daily living as a group for the duration of the spring semester.