Engage
H&A in Action connects students, faculty, artists, scholars, community partners, and audiences through the intellectual and creative work of the College of Humanities & the Arts.
Engagement can take many forms. Attend a performance, exhibition, screening, workshop, or public conversation. Explore how students and faculty turn coursework, research, and creative practice into public work. Discover collaborations throughout San José. Learn from the College’s Stories of Engagement and assessment. Use research and professional resources to develop your own engaged work. See how those experiences become evidence for humanities and arts advocacy.
Find Events
Performances, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, screenings, conversations, and other public programs take place throughout the academic year.
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Explore Stories of Engagement
The Stories of Engagement archive documents how students, faculty, artists, and community collaborators connect teaching, research, creative activity, and public engagement across the College.
These stories show students participating as researchers, performers, filmmakers, designers, writers, organizers, and collaborators; faculty connecting programming to curriculum and scholarly or creative inquiry; and community partners contributing knowledge and experience that shape the work.
Connect with San José
H&A in Action supports relationships between SJSU and the cultural, civic, educational, and community organizations that surround the university.
H&A in San José provides a starting point for learning about local organizations, potential partners, and opportunities for collaboration throughout San José and the South Bay.
See H&A in San José
Explore Interdisciplinary Work
Humanities and arts expertise often becomes most productive when it moves across disciplinary boundaries. H&A in Action supports spaces where scholarship and creative practice can intersect with technology, design, ethics, digital research, and other fields.
The Digital Humanities Center supports research, teaching, experimentation, and collaboration involving digital methods and humanities questions.
See the Digital Humanities Center
The Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies brings humanities and arts perspectives into conversations about technology, ethics, society, and public life.
See the Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies
Learn from the Work
H&A in Action documents projects, participation, assessment, and impact so that the College can learn across initiatives and make the value of the work visible.
Reports and Publications provide a record of AEPG and H&A in Action programming, participation, assessment, and development over time.
Research & Resources for Public Engagement offers scholarship, policy materials, assessment tools, disciplinary resources, and publication venues for faculty who want to study, write about, or further develop publicly engaged humanities and arts work.
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Advocate for the Humanities & Arts
Stories, project outcomes, student and faculty experiences, assessment data, and grant-supported work can become evidence in broader conversations about the value of humanities and arts education.
H&A in Action uses that evidence in public advocacy, including participation in National Humanities Advocacy Day and other efforts to communicate the importance of humanities and arts teaching, research, creative activity, and public engagement.
Engage with H&A in Action
Whether you are a student, faculty or staff member, community partner, artist, scholar, or member of the public, there are many ways to participate in the intellectual and creative life of the College.
Attend something. Collaborate on a project. Bring a question into public conversation. Share expertise. Explore the work already happening across the College. Use what you learn to build the next project.
