Reading Moby-Dick and One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Integrated Humanities Project

FAIN: AC-50163-13

CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College (New York, NY 10019-1007)
Richard Haw (Project Director: July 2012 to June 2016)

Faculty and curriculum development to create interdisciplinary intensive reading courses on Melville's Moby-Dick and Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The Integrated Humanities (IH) Project is an interdisciplinary deep-reading and research curriculum devoted to immersive study of one capacious book each semester—Melville’s "Moby-Dick" and García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude." The Project aims to offset students’ often fragmented academic experience by engaging them with the text almost daily while developing their ability to think critically, conduct research, recognize the interconnectedness of knowledge in the humanities and understand the diversity of human experience. To create a cohesive reading community, the IH Project allows students to receive 6 General Education humanities credits for two parallel 3-hour courses, one in the classroom, the other online, linked by bi-weekly small-group tutorials. The classroom course concentrates on close reading and written analysis; the research-based online course culminates in the collaborative creation of an illustrated, extensively annotated online edition of the core text.