Student Projects
Spring 2024
The Spring 2024 iteration of Bloom provided an opportunity to celebrate student creativity and public engagement across classes and internships in the Department of Public & Applied Humanities. The Spring 2024 event was curated by Professors… Learn More
Spring 2024
PAH 331 - Video Game Studies: Critical/Cultural Approaches
Students in PAH 331 explore a wide range of ways to study video games and, for their final project, they are tasked with identifying a specific audience to whom they will teach one of those approaches. For her project, Lindsey decided to teach about… Learn More
Spring 2024
PAH 499 - Independent Study / Honors Thesis
All space is designed, from city sidewalks to beautifully curated homes. This interdisciplinary Senior Honors Thesis project redesigns the University of Arizona's Center for English as a Second Language building to be more interculturally competent… Learn More
Spring 2023
The Spring 2023 iteration of Bloom was another insightful celebration of student creativity and public engagement, showcasing projects across PAH classes, internships, and more! The Spring 2023 event was curated by Professors Jacqueline Barrios and… Learn More
Spring 2023
PAH 150A3 - The Great Outdoors: Improving Health, Wellness, and Creativity by Living Life Outside
Students enrolled in PAH 150A3 "The Greater Outdoors: Improving Health, Wellness, and Creativity by Living Life Outside" get the opportunity to imagine design, implement, and evaluate their own public-facing applied project, creatively connecting… Learn More
Spring 2023
PAH 160D1 - Play: An Interactive Introduction
In Play: An Interactive Introduction, students think critically about how we conceive of and understand play, including how it can be utilized in a range of contexts, such as facilitating learning, building community, and addressing social… Learn More
Spring 2023
PAH 160D1 - Play: An Interactive Introduction
In my Spring 2023 iteration of Play: An Interactive Introduction, students worked in groups to develop, test, and analyze a play experience in partnership with community partner the Children’s Museum Tucson (CMT). Working within several of their… Learn More
Spring 2022
An annual event, Bloom offers PAH students an opportunity to showcase their public and applied humanities projects, pollinating ideas with peers, faculty, and community partners. This year's event was curated by Professors Jacqueline Barrios and… Learn More
Spring 2022
PAH 150A1 - Video Game Sights, Sounds & Stories
Video games present seemingly endless possibilities for exploration and study. In PAH 150A1, we begin to unravel some of that fascinating complexity by learning about how games are made, how they are studied, and how they affect the world. In his… Learn More
Spring 2022
PAH 201 - Applied Humanities Practice: Techniques & Technologies for Public Enrichment
There is a small yet not so small population in the United States that must work at least twice as hard as their peers. I'm referring to college students who are also parents. I wanted to make a meaningful project showing the lives of these students… Learn More
Fall 2021
PAH 160D5 - Bedtime: Exploring the Cultures & Practices of Sleep
The need for sleep is ubiquitous and part of everyday existence. Like many things that are part of our routine, however, we rarely take the time to consider sleep critically: Why do we sleep? Is sleep different from culture to culture? In what ways… Learn More
Fall 2020
PAH 150A3- The Great Outdoors: Improving Health, Wellness & Creativity by Living Life Outside
From physicians and neuroscientists to poets and songwriters, people around the world have long expressed how even brief immersion in nature can improve the human condition. This course--PAH 150A3 The Great Outdoors: Improving Health, Wellness, and… Learn More
Fall 2020
PAH 160 - Play: An Interactive Introduction
Play is perhaps the most foundational problem-solving and meaning-making practice humans engage in. In PAH 160D1 (Play: An Interactive Introduction), students explore the history of play, it's connections to education and human development, and the… Learn More
Fall 2020
PAH 331 - Video Game Studies: Critical/Cultural Approaches
In PAH 331 (Video Game Studies: Critical/Cultural Approaches), students engage with a broad range of different game studies theorists and methods. For his Honor's project for the course, Jackson Peters draws on computer game industry scholars as he… Learn More
Summer 2020
PAH 160D3 - Memes: The Art & Craft of Microstorytelling
The idea of the "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in the 1970s to describe units of culture that replicated in a similar way to genetic material—things like catch phrases, clothing fashions, or slogans. The term has since come to primarily mean… Learn More
Fall 2019
PAH 200 - Introduction to Applied Humanities
The UA Memorial MAP Project is a humanist initiative to document and reconnect with the unique memorials on the University of Arizona campus. We have embedded a virtual map of cultural and historical memorials on and around our University… Learn More