Archive - Learning by Note

Humanities Crash Course Week 52: Growing Up

Readings about responsibility to self and others at the end of this year-long course.

Dec 28, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 51: Brave New World

A classic science fiction novel has me reconsidering how I’m using LLMs for learning and thinking.

Dec 21, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 50: Going Meta

Exploring ways of experiencing art — and its effects — by analyzing it at dfferent levels.

Dec 14, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 49: Modern Times

Exploring how theory and art can help us maintain human agency amid dehumanizing systems.

Dec 7, 2025 • Jorge Arango

November 2025

Humanities Crash Course Week 48: Borges

What my favorite author can teach us about the nature of language.

Nov 30, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 47: Short Fiction

Empathizing with other lives by experiencing literary “virtual realities.”

Nov 23, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 46: Freud

Sometimes, a mindless popcorn flick is just a mindless popcorn flick.

Nov 16, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 45: More Modernism

Exploring works that express ideas and feelings by transcending media conventions.

Nov 9, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art

Conveying ideas and feelings by transcending conventional words and images.

Nov 2, 2025 • Jorge Arango

October 2025

Humanities Crash Course Week 43: Racial Injustice

Diving into a deeply painful and destructive moral failing: prejudice.

Oct 26, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 42: Evil Flowers

Transcendence as a way to cope with the drabness of everyday life.

Oct 19, 2025 • Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 41: What Moves Us

Learning about memory and motivations from two classic novels.

Oct 12, 2025 • Jorge Arango

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