| ZA-250725-16 | Challenge Programs: Next Generation Humanities PhD (Planning) | Penn State | Holistic Rethinkings of the Humanities PhD: Seminars, Dissertation, Internationalization, Fellowships | 9/1/2016 - 8/31/2018 | $25,000.00 | Eric | | Hayot | | | | Penn State | University Park | PA | 16802-1503 | USA | 2016 | Comparative Literature | Next Generation Humanities PhD (Planning) | Challenge Programs | 0 | 25000 | 0 | 25000 | Penn State’s plans to institute
wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs.
Penn State
University's College of the Liberal Arts proposes to rethink the humanities PhD
along four major lines: 1) moving beyond the graduate seminar; 2) internationalizing
training and placement; 3) alternatives to the dissertation; and 4) piloting
extra-academic training in a new fellowship program. A Core Committee that includes
the university Provost, the College Dean, a member of the university Board of
Trustees, as well as faculty, administrators, and graduate students will
oversee four working groups. The project goal is to develop a new fellowship
program that would, by including the advances of all four groups, also pilot a
significant new structure for the humanities PhD. |