The Invisible Hand: Enacting and Embodying in the Humanities I (Year-Long Course)

Hands-on engagement with the process of crafting produces a different type of knowledge than that gained via other methods, such as reading a book or making logical deductions about a corpus. This seminar recenters the embodied human in the humanities, inviting students to make the body (all the way down to their own hands!) central to inquiry and discovery. Students design a year-long, hands-on making project, practicing research skills from forming a compelling question to situating insights and connections within their literary, historical, and/or cultural context. Spend a year putting process over product - and make something!