
Fisher will be attending the Great Books Council of San Francisco's Poetry Weekend on Zoom. To register, e-mail Alissa at We look forward to hearing from you! All readings are provided, and the discussions take place on Zoom. For additional registration information please contact Rebecca Fisher at Quarterly DiscussionĬonsider joining us for a 1.5 hour discussion on Plutarch's Coriolanus and a speech by David McCullough on either Thursday, October 27th or Saturday, October 29th. Hitz, followed by a responsive panel comprised of four distinguished educators, with opportunities for Q&A.


The program opens with a conversation featuring Dr. This program will examine the value of embracing the liberal arts and humanities for their own sake and consider how a rich intellectual life for everyone enhances human dignity. Zena Hitz’s thought-provoking book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (2020). Please join HMU President, Joe Coulson, and David Yamada, 2022 HMU Fellowship recipient, for a discussion focusing on Dr. “The Dignity of an Intellectual Life for All” Harrison Middleton University promotes student-faculty scholarship through research, discussion, and the development of collaborative publications.

Harrison Middleton University is a great ideas, great works, great conversations, distance learning university that offers graduate education in the humanities with concentrations in imaginative literature, natural science, philosophy and religion, and social science.

Sustaining the values of student-centered education, HMU provides the means for curricular innovation, for the inclusion of diverse primary sources, and for new directions in graduate study and research. Finalized programs include an outline of subject areas and a sequence of classic texts, ancient to modern, that serve as the student’s guiding curriculum for earning a graduate degree in the humanities.Īs active learners, HMU students focus on problems of theory, meaning, and application while they engage with faculty in one-to-one, inquiry-based discussions, a method of learning and teaching that allows for rigorous exploration and shared discovery. HMU students, in pursuit of their academic interests and personal objectives, design programs of study in collaboration with an Instructional Team. To this end, HMU offers individualized programs of study, one-to-one online discussions with faculty, and curricular options that foster inter- or multidisciplinary study. We at Harrison Middleton University believe that education should be creative and liberating.
