Program Overview
The Humanities program provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways people understand and express the human experience through art, music, literature, religion, and philosophy. Students strengthen their critical thinking, analytical reading, and writing skills while examining diverse perspectives across cultures and time periods.
By engaging with diverse perspectives and complex questions, students gain a deeper understanding of themselves and others while building the intellectual flexibility needed to navigate an increasingly interconnected world.
Career Opportunities
Career opportunities include writing, teaching, publishing, law, journalism, foreign service, advertising, administration, social work, archival and curatorial work, government and civil service, public relations, human resources, management, and more.
What You Will Learn
- Derive evidence from primary sources regarding the complexities and changes in human experience through analytical reading and critical thought.
- Describe and critically analyze how human experience, values and understandings, and conceptual frameworks regarding self and the world are shaped by human agency along with social, cultural, linguistic, technological, and/or historical circumstances; and vice versa.
- Demonstrate attentiveness to language, images, or acoustic media, and communicate meaning.
- Demonstrate appropriate use of verbal, perceptual, or imaginative skills when organizing meanings, developing a sense of self, and balancing potentially disparate values.
- Collect and sift appropriate source material in the library or online and provide appropriate and thorough attribution.
Estimated Cost
Books: $5 per semester
Course Fees: $15 per each language course