Announcements
New Hub Cocurricular: HUB CC 299: WIN in Your Career
The BU HUB is now offering an exciting new Hub cocurricular: HUB CC 299: WIN in Your Career. In this cocurricular writing experience, students reflect on what they have learned in the BU Hub, think about how it complements their major, and consider how their skills and knowledge can be applied to their career aspirations. Students write about their Hub experiences and collect their writings in an ePortfolio that can be used to support their career and personal development.
Additional details about the course:
- Fulfills one Hub requirement: Writing-Intensive Course
- Open to juniors and seniors who have completed most of their Hub requirements
- Prerequisite: First-Year Writing Seminar Hub requirement
- Offered fall and spring
Register on the MyBU Student Portal today!
To learn more about Hub cocurriculars, please visit the Hub website.
Register for New Interdisciplinary Hub Course!
HUB IC 201 is a 4-credit elective course in which students explore policing and its role in life and politics in the US, including origins and development, the institution of policing, race and racism, and resistance to policing.
Additional details about the course:
- Fulfills Hub requirements in Historical Consciousness and Quantitative Reasoning I
- Brings together political science, history, and statistics
- No prerequisite
- Offered in Fall 2025
For more information about the Hub interdisciplinary courses program, please visit the Hub website.
New Hub Cocurricular This Fall: HUB CC 184: Earth House
This fall, the BU HUB is offering an exciting new Hub cocurricular: HUB CC 184: Earth House. In this hands-on experience, students will explore concepts and practices of sustainability, with Earth House and other BU buildings and outdoor spaces serving as objects of inquiry, and extending to the broader infrastructure and natural systems supporting BU and beyond. Additional details about the cocurricular:
- Fulfills Scientific Inquiry I
- Meets Mondays 4:30-6:15 pm
- Contact Professor Nathan Phillips at nathan@bu.edu with any questions
Register on the MyBU Student Portal today!
To learn more about Hub cocurriculars, please visit the Hub cocurricular section of the Hub website.
Register for New Interdisciplinary Hub Course!
HUB IC 203 is a 4-credit elective course in which students learn to pitch business ideas and start their own ventures, including how to receive funding for, operate, and grow an enterprise. Bringing together the fields of business and communications, the course develops the skills needed to execute a future business plan through three different types of learning–lectures, case studies, and pitching and feedback.
Additional details about the course:
- Fulfills Hub requirements in Quantitative Reasoning I and Digital/Multimedia Expression
- Co-taught by faculty from Questrom and COM
- Open to all BU undergraduate students
- No prerequisite
- Offered in Fall 2024
- Video introduction to the course available here!
For more information about these new interdisciplinary Hub courses, visit here.
Fulfill GCI, IIC with Study Abroad
BU undergraduates who study abroad can now fulfill a requirement in the Hub areas of the Individual in Community (IIC) and/or Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy (GCI) by submitting a written reflection on how they fulfilled the learning outcomes during their abroad experience.
Students who still need GCI or IIC Hub requirements and have already studied abroad may also enroll.
Learn more about these 0-credit courses on the Study Abroad & the Hub webpages.
Earn RIL with your Honor’s Thesis
Are you taking an honors thesis or other directed-study project with a faculty mentor?
o Do you still need to fulfill a requirement in the BU Hub area Research and Information Literacy (RIL)?
o If you answered yes to both questions, sign up for HUB RL 401!
For more information, including process and deadlines, check out the Earning Research and Information Literacy with Honors Thesis or Directed Study page.
Save the Date: Spring 2024 Experiential Learning Expo
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 3-7 pm
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Avenue, 1st and 2nd Floors
Join us for an immersive and interactive experience at BU’s Experiential Learning Expo!
The Expo, presented by Boston University’s Office of Undergraduate Affairs, will showcase more than 100 student projects undertaken in conjunction with the BU Hub Cross-College Challenge (XCC), the Learning Assistant Program, and BU Spark!
To learn more, visit bu.edu/expo and check back often for more details as the event gets closer.
Call for Teaching Fellows for HUB SJ 101 for AY 2024-25
Teaching Fellows are needed for HUB SJ 101: Social & Racial Justice: Systems and Structures, for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. HUB SJ 101 is a 4-credit elective course for first-year undergraduates housed in the BU Hub. The course provides students with foundational knowledge concerning the historical and systemic bases of social and racial inequities and the efforts to build a more just world. Using a module-based approach, consisting of four or five multi-week units, the course engages students in critically assessing inequities and efforts towards justice in social systems such as education, environment/sustainability, health, housing, and entertainment. The course also fulfills Hub requirements in Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, and Critical Thinking. The teaching team for the course will include one BU faculty members and two Teaching Fellows.
For more details and information on how to apply, please see the Teaching Fellow Call. The initial deadline for applications is February 5, 2024.
Appointment of Lynn O’Brien Hallstein as the next Assistant Provost for General Education
We are delighted to welcome Professor Lynn O’Brien Hallstein as the new assistant provost for general education, effective July 1, 2023. Dr. O'Brien Hallstein is the associate dean for faculty research and development, the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning, and a professor of rhetoric in the College of General Studies. She brings with her a deep knowledge of the undergraduate experience at BU and the needs of an expansive general education program, informed in particular by four years as a member of the BU Hub Council and by her time as chair for the Cross-College Challenge Steering Committee. We are excited to welcome Dr. O'Brien Hallstein to the Hub team and look forward to working with her to identify and cultivate opportunities for future growth and improvement of the BU Hub. Please join us in congratulating Dr. O'Brien Hallstein as she takes on her new role.
Updates to Hub Learning Outcomes
Based on recommendations from the 2022 faculty Hub Assessment Workshop, the faculty of the BU Hub Council made changes to learning outcomes of nine Hub areas to increase clarity and flexibility. These changes include an important update to the Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship capacity: each area within this capacity has a new optional learning outcome focused on social and racial justice. You can view the updated and new learning outcomes in the "What is the Hub?" pages of the Hub website.