Applied Humanities
The Humanities consists of the ways in which people tell stories, interpret and define meaning, and document human experiences. It includes art history, literature, history, philosophy, musicology, religious studies, writing, and more. Applied Humanities takes these methods and subject areas from the classroom into the world at large. Through service learning and public facing projects students are empowered to develop marketable skills and experience. This program is flexibly designed to allow students either to focus solely on Applied Humanities or to creatively combine it with a second major.
Program Learning Outcomes
1. Apply the methodologies of the Humanities to engage enduring human concerns.
2. Analyze texts, visual images, cultural phenomena and other artifacts of human experience with a focus on multiplicity of meanings and perspectives.
3. Creatively and effectively communicate ideas informed by the Humanities for multiple audiences in contextually appropriate ways (including public facing and implies info literacy, academic integrity, etc.).
4. Harness the interpretive power of the Humanities to address real world problems or situations in order to improve the lived reality of people in your community.
Requirements for Applied Humanities Major:
| Credits |
|---|---|
Prerequisite | |
HUMS 1000 Introduction to the Humanities | 3 |
Required course | |
HUMS 3900 Senior Capstone | 3 |
Electives across Humanities Disciplines | 15 |
As a program, the Humanities encompasses several different disciplines/skillsets. To reflect this diversity of disciplines, students must complete courses in at least four different groupings, as organized below. In addition, Of these credits, 12 must come from the foundational courses listed below (i.e., three credits, or one course, from each foundation): | |
Art History | |
AH 1100 World Art | |
AH 2000 Identity and Visual Culture | |
AH 2720 History of Photography | |
AH 2930 Contemporary Art | |
AH 2935 Modern Art | |
AH 2970 History of Graphic Design | |
Dance and Music | |
DANC 2200 Dance Social Justice | |
DANC 2300 World Dance History | |
MUS1000 Introduction to the Study of Music, Culture, and Society | |
MUS 2430 Music in Film | |
MUS 2450 American Music | |
MUS 2510 Music of Latin America and the Caribbean | |
MUS 2550 Music of the World | |
MUS 2620 Global Popular Music and Media Cultures | |
MUS 2630 Music and the Call for Justice in New Orleans | |
MUS 2650 The Musical: Discovering Diversity | |
Media Studies | |
AH/FCST 3498 Film Criticism | |
COM 3020 Intercultural Communication | |
COM 3011 Media Cultures | |
FCST 2492 History of Film | |
FCST 2493 Film Art and Form | |
FCST 3801 Global Film | |
VGS 2640 Video Games: A Cultural History | |
History | |
P&H 1010 U.S. History I in a Global Context: Ancient America Through Reconstruction | |
P&H 1020 U.S. History II in a Global Context: Reconstruction to the Present | |
P&H 1040 European History in a Global Context: 1789-Present | |
Philosophy and Religious Studies | |
PRS 2100 Beginnings of Philosophy | |
PRS 2120 The Meaning of Life | |
PRS 2150 Eastern Religion and Philosophy | |
PRS 2160 Introduction to Buddhism | |
PRS 2210 Better Living Through Ethics | |
PRS 2230 Philosophy and Pop Culture | |
PRS 2410 Environmental Ethics | |
PRS 2541 Race and Religion in America | |
Writing, Rhetoric and Literature | |
ENG 1180 Introduction to Literary Studies | |
ENG 2631 The Journey in Literature | |
WRIT 2200 Working With Writers | |
WRIT 2240 Rhetoric of the Holocaust | |
WRIT 2270 Graphic Novel and Comics as Literature | |
WRIT 2280 Professional and Technical Writing | |
WRIT 2290 Nature Writing | |
Requirements for Humanities Minor:
Students must complete a total of 15 credits for the minor. These courses should be drawn from at least two of the Humanities disciplines listed under the major, along with at least one Humanities course with an applied focus (see this list above under the major). Minors are encouraged, but not required, to take the senior capstone; the capstone would qualify as the one applied course.
Students may double count one course from their core major requirements in a minor. Courses designated as prerequisites or related requirements for a major may be double counted in a minor and are not considered as the one allotted major course