A recently awarded grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) will help support Triton College in the creation of new courses that better reflect the diversity of Triton’s students and community. The $100,000 Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges Grant will allow the development of five new courses within Triton’s Social Science and English departments that will speak to changing global realities. A Latin American studies course will be created by Social Science Department faculty member and grant co-director Maxi Armas. Other subjects will include a course on global feminism created by Social Science Department faculty member Dr. Christina Brophy and a Latino literature course created by English Department faculty member Paul Martinez. Developmental Education Department faculty member Gail Krahenbuhl will re-write developmental English courses to include more global perspectives. Triton is designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education, with a student body made up of 59 percent minority students, including 40 percent Hispanic/Latino and 16 percent African-American students.  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States.