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![Catherine Jurca](https://divisions-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/hss70/images/26.2e16d0ba.fill-432x432-c100.jpg)
- Professor of English and Visual Culture
Catherine Jurca
We live in a world of images and screens, and visual literacy is an important part of being an educated, thoughtful person in the world."
![Jocelyn Holland](https://divisions-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/hss70/images/23.2e16d0ba.fill-432x432-c100.jpg)
- Professor of Comparative Literature
Jocelyn Holland
The humanities have the practical function of giving students something they wouldn't otherwise have. The humanities classroom is a space where they can take a step back from their scientific work and learn to think about the world in a different way."
![Warren Brown](https://divisions-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/hss70/images/4.2e16d0ba.fill-432x432-c100.jpg)
- Professor of History
Warren C. Brown
In my classes, students learn the craft of the medieval historian: to read closely the often difficult primary sources from medieval Europe; push past but also take into account their perspectives, assumptions, and biases, as much as possible; and to assemble what they have learned into persuasive written arguments."
![Ralph Adolphs](https://divisions-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/hss70/images/0.2e16d0ba.fill-432x432-c100.jpg)
- Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology
Ralph Adolphs
Caltech's small size really fosters interdisciplinary science. I exchange ideas with people from different fields when walking between my lab and my office, and I often run late to lunch at the Athenaeum because I catch up with so many students and faculty who I run into along the way."