Dark Tourism: Teaching Through Travelling
The Content Why do graveyards, prisons, and wreckage sites become tourist destinations? A new Topics in History course has emerged exploring the intricacies of Dark Tourism; now including a literary twist. Also listed as American Literature in Historical Context, this course joins a student-favorite Beeghly College tradition of team teaching a class. Dark Tourism is […]
Understanding the YSU College Counseling and Student Affairs Track
The College Counseling and Student Affairs Program at YSU The YSU Master of Education (MSEd) in Counseling offers students four distinct tracks for students to specialize their curriculum to their intended career path. The tracks include addiction counseling, clinical mental health counseling, school counseling, and college counseling and student affairs. The College Counseling and Student […]
Holding the Past in Your Hands: The Value of Archival Research in Literary Studies
What can you learn from holding a manuscript written by one of your favorite authors? I recently had this experience when I was able to hold a very special letter written by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet whose life and works I have been writing about for over thirty years. I am primarily a textual […]
Celebrating YSU’s New English Major: Reflections from a New Department Chair
Welcome Back to Campus As the new chair for English and World Languages, I want to welcome you back to school and share some updates about what’s going on in our department! I am excited to step into this new role of chair, although I am sad that I won’t be teaching as much anymore. […]
Supporting Teacher Education Students through the CRC
When you think of the library, opossum puppets, botany board games, and flash cards may not be the first things to come to mind, but they are the most circulated items in the Wilcox Curriculum Resource Center (CRC).
More Than An Internship: India Gatts and the Pioneer Cemetery
When India Gatts applied for an internship at the Trumbull County Historical Society (TCHS) as a junior history and English double major, she just thought it would be good work experience. She then turned it into a two-year project on the Old Mahoning Ave. “Pioneer” Cemetery of cataloging, digitizing, mapping, and creating maps and indexes.
AI isn’t making liberal arts degrees obsolete; it’s doing the opposite.
What does it mean to be a liberal arts student in the AI boom? While AI is changing a lot of industries and lives, it isn’t killing liberal arts careers like many people think; it’s creating a new career opportunity.
Dig This: Archeology Students Unearth History with Community Engagement
YSU Anthropology students took to Center Brook Manor to dig up the past in class, ‘Archeological Techniques’.
What Can You Do with a Psychology Degree? A Student’s Perspective.
Explore the paths a psychology degree from YSU leads to across mental health, research, criminal justice, and more.
Learning to Turn Data into Stories That Create Change
Data: More than a Four-Letter Word The week after every academic semester brings something many faculty dread: the anonymous student evaluations of the courses they just finished teaching. After nearly two decades of teaching in higher education, I try to read these evaluations with this mindset: just as my critical feedback on students’ writing presents […]