“Last Train Home” gives WCU students new perspective on migration and globalization

Last Train Home gave a crowd of about 40 students a new perspective on China’s workers on March 29. WCU Humanities Initiative hosted a screening of Last Train Home, a 2009 documentary by Lixin Fan about the world’s largest human migration—China’s 130 million migrant workers traveling to their home villages from urban centers for the […]

Time for poetry and prose… and beautiful words

Each year, for the past 14 years, Western Carolina University has held an annual Spring Literary Festival to reflect WCU’s commitment to providing the best humanities education possible for its students and to bring the best of the arts to the heart of the WNC Mountains. The Festival is a 4-day long event where both established […]