Humanities Major (BA) and Minor

BA, Minor

24.0103

Letters Collegium

The study of the humanities is the fundamentally interdisciplinary engagement of the ideas, stories, words, images, frameworks, and worldviews that help us understand what it has meant and can mean to be human, across time and cultures. Studying the humanities prepares students for numerous vocational aspirations in a rapidly changing world. The interdisciplinary major in Humanities is coordinated by the Letters Collegium wherein students complete a ten‑course program that includes five courses in a core Letters discipline (American studies, classics, East Asian studies, history, literature, philosophy, film studies, religious studies, or women’s and gender studies), four courses from complementary disciplines, and HU 498: Humanities Colloquium. At least five of the 10 courses taken toward the Humanities major must be at the 300 level or above.