HUMANITIES—B.A.
The major in Humanities is interdisciplinary and may be intercollegiate. In consultation with an advisor, the student takes a minimum of 44 semester hours of interdisciplinary humanities courses from two components: (1) an interdisciplinary core of 23 hours and (2) an area of concentration of 21 hours.
Depending on the concentration chosen, under certain circumstances students may opt to take up to 29 hours in the interdisciplinary core and 15 hours in the area of concentration.
Interdisciplinary Core
| Issues, Methods, and Theory (6 minimum) | |
| HUM 200 | Encountering the Humanities HU (3) |
| HUM 498 | PS: Theory and Culture (3) |
| Elective (3) | |
| Cultures in Context (11) | |
| HUM 301, 302 | Humanities in the Western World L1/HU, H (8) |
| One approved upper-division course on the cultures and traditions of Latin America, Asia, or Africa (3) | |
| Ethnicity, Race, and Gender (3) | |
| Art, Science and Technology (3) | |
| Minimum total: 23 | |
Area of Concentration
| Required courses from list obtained from advisor (21) |
Courses must be selected from an approved list or be approved in advance by the undergraduate advisor. Areas of concentration currently include architecture; architecture, culture, and society; business; design; film studies; humanities/liberal arts; justice studies; and planning.
The humanities are those learned bodies of knowledge that are used to express ideas, to understand the meaning of words, and to explore the values and beliefs that underlie our culture and the cultures of others. As defined by the U.S. Congress, the humanities include archaeology, comparative religion, ethics, history, jurisprudence, literature, linguistics, philosophy, the history and criticism of the arts, and those aspects of the social sciences that employ a philosophical or historical rather than quantitative approach to knowledge.
The core courses are to be selected from architecture, art history, dance, English, film studies, history, humanities (HUM), languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religious studies, theatre, and other approved disciplines. These courses may be credited toward the General Studies requirement.
MINOR IN HUMANITIES
The following courses are required for the minor:
| HUM 110 | Contemporary Issues in the Humanities HU (3) |
| HUM 301 | Humanities in the Western World L1/HU, H (4) |
| HUM 302 | Humanities in the Western World L1/HU, H (4) |
| Approved upper-division HUM courses (9) | |
| Total: 20 | |
GRADUATE PROGRAM
The faculty in the program also offer the M.A. degree in Humanities through the Graduate Committee on Humanities. Consult the Graduate Catalog for requirements.
Omnibus Courses: See omnibus courses that may be offered.
1998–99 General Catalog Table of Contents
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