Nancy Bunge lectures to her Integrative Arts and Humanities class in Bessey Hall.
Photo by Kurt Stepnitz, University Relations
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Nancy Bunge reviews a text with her Moral Issues and the Arts and Humanities class in Bessey Hall.
Photo by Kurt Stepnitz, University Relations
Nancy Bunge, a 2005 winner of the Fitz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities and a Fulbright scholar, has taught Integrative Arts and Humanities courses since the inception of the Integrative Studies program and has designed three distinctive courses.
In each of these courses Bunge asks students to read complex, authoritative texts. She provides exercises and assignments that put the texts in conversation with students’ perspectives. Students learn that they can read complex texts, be challenged by them, learn from them and think with them, but not be dominated by them. This approach is animated by Bunge’s belief “in the importance of trusting the students to digest and use difficult work” and by her commitment to creating a general education experience that will help students discover the rewards of intellectual exercise.
“I believe fervently,” she says, “that interdisciplinary courses can make ideas fascinating.” Her students have written appreciatively of creative assignments throughout the semester that require them to delve below surface-level understanding of core ideas and challenge them to connect those ideas to literature, their own lives and culture.
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