Humanities

Humanities Department

Vision

The Humanities Department will contribute to the college community’s broad understanding and informed appreciation of the humanities, including the rhetorical arts, literature and philosophy.

Mission

In concert with the vision and philosophy of College of the Mainland, the Humanities Department will:

Offer students quality education in English, speech, humanities and philosophy.
Help students improve reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills.
Provide students with the opportunity to develop their abilities “to use computer-based technology in communicating, solving problems and acquiring information” (Co-Board).

Recent Humanities Articles

English professor named COM’s online instructor of the year

English professor named COM’s online instructor of the year

Mexican Consulate sets up temporary office at College of the Mainland

Mexican citizens in Galveston County need only travel to College of the Mainland to renew passports and Mexican identification the next couple of weeks.

Concerned Alums form ‘Adopt a Gator’ Scholarship Fund

Four Dickinson High School 1989 graduates put their Gator spirit to work in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, joining forces to create and promote a scholarship fund specifically for current Dickinson high school students to attend College of the Mainland, either through the Collegiate High School are as entering students next year.

New business communication, persuasion courses at COM

In the world of social media and half-truths, learn how to spot illogical arguments with College of the Mainland’s Argumentation class coming fall 2017.

New sign language, German classes at COM

Learn to communicate with many cultures in two language courses offered at College of the Mainland for the first time.

COM symposium awards top truth projects

What is truth? A total of 28 students from four colleges explored truth in the arts and sciences recently at College of the Mainland.

Pop culture in the classroom

Step aside, textbooks. In some College of the Mainland classes, students learn not just from books and PowerPoints, but with a dash of movies, music and more.

Instructor instills love of reading in students

Giselle Hewitt has dual roles – balancing accounts and paying bills as an accounting specialist and instilling a love of literature in students as a COM English instructor.

Showing students the world

Like any great storyteller, English professor Bernie Smiley sets the stage.

Lost in Yonkers at COM theatre - (Directed by Humanities faculty member)

As the second world war rages, two boys face turmoil closer to home when their father deposits them on their grandmother’s doorstep to become a traveling salesman.

Fewer slammed doors the goal of Interpersonal Communications class

Words fly. Tempers flare. Voices shout - “But Criminal Minds is better than Shark Week!”

Debating superhero and everyday morality in ethics class

Choosing between saving a mentor or saving Gotham is one of the tough choices discussed in Stacey Burleson’s ethics class, which focuses on fictional and real-world dilemmas.

Student champion: Beth Hammett wins online teacher of the year

For her excellence and compassion, students voted professor Beth Hammett College of the Mainland online teacher of the year.

Professor by day, firefighter by night

When R.E. Davis dismisses his last class of the day, he isn’t off the clock. He is now on call for the San Leon Volunteer Fire Department.

Aliens and more in literature courses

Here be dragons … and other literary villains. Those looking for something different in an English course at College of the Mainland have new options this semester, from World Literature to Post-Apocalyptic Lit.

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