Each year we celebrate the achievements of our Halifax Humanities 101 students at a graduation ceremony attended by their friends, families, and professors. For many years, the University of King’s College has generously hosted our graduation ceremony on their beautiful campus. View some of our celebrations past! Graduation 2025 Graduation 2024 Graduation 2023 Graduation 2022 Graduation 2021 Graduation 2020
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Our Books
Halifax Humanities 101 students cover a wide range of material over the course of the program. Each of our five sections is curated by a local professor, who chooses the texts and teachers for their section. Below, you can see the reading list for our 2024/2025 class.
“Philosophy from Everywhere, for Everyone: Podcasting Global Philosophy” – The Humanities Today Lecture 2025
On Wednesday, April 16 at 6:30 PM at the North Memorial Library Dr. Adamson presented “Philosophy from Everywhere, for Everyone: Podcasting Global Philosophy” for our the Humanities Today Lecture Series. Since 2010, Peter Adamson has been producing the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, a podcast that has been downloaded more than 45 million times across nearly 700 episodes, covering not just …
African Heritage Month Public Lecture
Each February, Halifax Humanities 101 opens up our classroom to the public for a lecture to celebrate African Heritage Month. This free public lecture is followed by a Q&A with the speaker and a reception. The 2026 Annual African Heritage Month Lecture On February 26, 2026, Dr. Isaac Saney will present Halifax Humanities’ African Heritage Month lecture at the North …
The Humanities Today Lecture Series
The Humanities Today Lecture Series examines the role the humanities play in our lives and the lives of communities on the periphery of or excluded from the traditional avenues of humanities education. This series is supported by funds donated in the memory of Renate Usmiani, a professor of the Department of English at Mount St. Vincent University, remembered and beloved …
Halifax Humanities 101
Join our free course modelled after the curriculum of the Foundation Year Program at the University of King’s College! The class is a “Great Books” program where students will read works of Western literature, philosophy, political theory, and theology, and look at works of art. The course moves chronologically, beginning in Ancient Mesopotamia and ending in the present day. Along the way, we think about big themes like beauty, justice, community, and power.
Halifax Thinks
Halifax Thinks is an opportunity for those interested in philosophy, literature, and art to take a University-level course that works with your busy schedule. Its curriculum is based on the interdisciplinary Great Books model offered in the Foundation Year Programme (FYP) at the University of King’s College. Students receive a collection of recorded lectures written and delivered by university professors which …
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Introducing the Bonita Shepherd University Access Program
In memory of its very first student, The Halifax Humanities Society is pleased to name its University Access Program in honour of Bonita Shepherd. Bonita Shepherd was a groundbreaker, not only in being the first to apply to the Halifax Humanities full-year class, but also in taking up the possibility of continuing on to university classes. The Bonita Shepherd University …
The Angus Johnston Alumni Seminar
Graduates of Halifax Humanities 101 are invited to join the Angus Johnston Alumni Seminar, a reading group of Halifax Humanities alumni that meets once a week from September to April each year. Some members of the Seminar have been returning each year for over a decade. Topics discussed have included Gender, Canadian Literature, Storytelling, Russian Literature, Goethe’s Faust, and World …