A constant question in today’s world is: is there a practical value in a liberal arts education? At haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore, there is a merger of digital education and the humanities that allows the question to be answered with a resounding, “Yes.”
(by Patricia Cohen – New York Times)
BRYN MAWR, Pa. — Prof. Katherine Rowe’s blue-haired avatar was flying across a grassy landscape to a virtual three-dimensional re-creation of the Globe Theater, where some students from her introductory Shakespeare class at Bryn Mawr College had already gathered online. Their assignment was to create characters on the Web site Theatron3 and use them to block scenes from the gory revenge tragedy “Titus Andronicus,” to see how setting can heighten the drama.