The Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication exemplifies Lawrence Technological University’s College of Arts and Sciences’ mission to foster creative minds and critical thinkers through effective teaching and real world experiences.
LTU offers you a substantial assortment of courses from:
- Victorian and Modern Literature
- Broadcast Studio Technique
- Abnormal Psychology
- Business Law
The diverse course work takes you beyond the classroom, whether it is a study abroad trip to Paris or the set of a newsroom – giving you the experience you need in today’s competitive working world.
News
Teller to bring a 'luxury of conversation'
Storytelling isn’t just a profession for longtime teller Corinne Stavish. It’s also a way of life.Read more
LTU gets state grant for lecture series linking humanities with technology
Lawrence Technological University has received a $6,800 grant from Michigan Humanities to support the “Humanity + Technology Lecture Series,” a continuing series of public presentations on the human implications and effects of technology—past, present, and future.Read more
LTU student-produced documentary on women of color in STEM now up on YouTube
A team of students in Lawrence Technological University’s media communication program has produced a half-hour documentary film on previously little-known contributions to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) by three women of color in the early and mid-20th Century.Read more
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics / Paul Jaussen
Paul Jaussen, Associate Professor of Literature, has published a review of Nathan Brown's book The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham University Press, 2017) in the journal ASAP/J. The review examines Brown's analysis of the relationship between nanotechnology, philosophy, design, and contemporary poetry.Read more
Next Humanity & Technology Lecture to feature Speaker Ken Knoespel on Asimov, the Ice Moons of Saturn, and New Humanities
What then do we really mean when we speak of a ‘new humanities?’Read more
Next Idea Factory event offers expert on inclusivity in the classroom
How classroom practices can boost engagement among historically marginalized populations is the topic of the next event in the Idea Factory speaker series at Lawrence Technological University.Read more
Humanities and Technology Lecture - Care-ful Futures Design, Technology and the More than Human
How do you study people, things, and futures that do not yet exist? Based on 10 years of scholarship and practice on emerging technologies, this talk will draw on theories around posthuman and the more-than-human in order to understand the emergent aesthetics, ethics, and politics. TRead more
Writing Workshop Fridays
Please Join us For Writing Workshop FridaysPresented by the Writing Center and the Library. 3/1 - Evaluating Sources and Using the Library3/22 - WPE Prep4/5 - Wikipedia & Google Scholar4/22 - MLA Annotated BibsRead more
Pop music lyrics increasingly angry and sad, LTU analysis shows
If you think popular music has grown angrier and sadder over the years, it’s not just your imagination. It’s science. A scientific analysis of popular music lyrics from the 1950s through 2016, conducted by a student and professor at Lawrence Technological University, showed that song lyrics have become both angrier and sadder since the 1950s.Read more
Dr. Vivian Kao, Assistant Professor of Composition, has just published a new article in the journal Interdisciplinary Humanities.
Dr. Vivian Kao, Assistant Professor of Composition, has just published a new article in the journal Interdisciplinary Humanities. Her essay, “'Science, Technology, and the Human': Integrating STEM and the Introductory Humanities Course," presents a case study for the benefits and drawbacks of adapting a...Read more
