HUMANITIES

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MAJOR IN HUMANITIES (Bachelor of Arts)

A student majoring in humanities must complete the core requirements, one concentration which must be chosen in consultation with the humanities adviser and the chair of the specific area, the general studies program including the general studies requirements below, and all baccalaureate degree requirements as outlined in this bulletin. Any course taken to satisfy core and/or concentration requirements cannot also be counted as satisfying general studies requirements, except as noted.

General Studies Requirements:
The Humanities major assumes certain general proficiences in areas that are integral elements of the General Studies program described in the college bulletin. Consequently, majors in the Humanities program will satisfy portions of their general studies requirements by taking ART 251, Introduction to Art, 4 hours; at least 8 hours from the sequence HIST 120, 121, 122, History of Western Civilization; and MUHL 124, Introduction to Music, 4 hours. Honors students, however, will satisfy the requirements of the Honors Program.

Core Requirements:

ENGL	210, 211, 212	Survey of English and American Literature	8
ENGL	359	World Literature	8
ENGL		One upper-division literature course	4
HIST	465	Renaissance and Reformation	4
HMNT	496	Seminar in Humanities	3
PHIL	205	Introduction to Philosophy	4
ANTH	225	Cultural Anthropology	3-4
or
HIST	454	*Classical Political Thought
BIOL	407	Philosophy of Science	4
or
ENVI	385	Environmental Stewardship
PSYC	444	Social Psychology	3
or
PSYC	366	Theories of Personality
RELH	403	World Religions	3-4
or
RELT	412	Philosophy of Religion
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*Can also be taken as SOCI 454 or PHIL 454.

CONCENTRATION: English

ENGL	234	Literary Analysis	4
ENGL	358	Classical Literature	4
ENGL	324-338	Upper-division writing	3
ENGL		Upper-division literature	8
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CONCENTRATION: Fine Arts

ART	324, 325, 326	History of World Art	9
MUHL	311, 312	Survey of Music History	8
SPCH	363	History of Dramatic Arts	3-4
or
ENGL	464	Development of English Drama
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CONCENTRATION: History (12 quarter hours must be upper division)

HIST	221, 222	History of the United States	8
HIST	457	Social and Intellectual History of the United States (recommended)	4
HIST	454	Classical Political Thought (recommended)	4
HIST	466	Enlightenment and Revolution (recommended)	4
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CONCENTRATION: Modern Languages

FREN	307	French Civilization	20
FREN	406	17th Century French Literature
FREN	407	18th Century French Literature
FREN	408	19th Century French Literature
FREN	409	20th Century French Literature
or
GRMN	311, 312, 313	Survey of German Literature	21
GERM	314	German Civilization
GRMN	421	18th Century German Literature
GRMN	422	19th Century German Literature
GRMN	423	20th Century German Literature
or
SPAN	324, 325, 326	Survey of Spanish Literature	21
SPAN	330	Iberian Culture and Civilization
SPAN	331	Spanish-American Culture and Civilization
SPAN	424, 425	Contemporary Spanish Literature
SPAN	431, 432, 433	Survey of Latin-American Literature

CONCENTRATION: Philosophy

HIST	454	Classical Political Thought	16
PHIL	206	Introduction to Logic
PHIL	305	Moral Philosophy
PHIL	306, 307	History of Philosophy
PHIL	407	Philosophy of Science
PHIL	412	Philosophy of Religion
PHIL	440	Problems in Philosophy

CONCENTRATION: Religious Studies
Twenty total hours are required for the concentration, ten of which may overlap with the general studies requirement in Religion. The concentration cannot include credit from the Biblical Studies (RELB) portion of the general studies offerings in Religion. Because the general studies requirement includes six hours of RELB course work, a student with a religious studies concentration will graduate with a total of at least twenty-six hours of religion. The six hours of Biblical Studies required in the general studies program, must include at least three upper division credits.

RELT	404	Approaches to Biblical Interpretation	11-12
RELH	403	World Religions
or
RELT	412	Philosophy of Religion
		(One of these courses is already required
		as a humanities cognate, the other is for
		the Religious Studies concentration.)
PHIL	305	Moral Philosophy
or
RELT	246	Christian Ethics
RELH/RELT	469	Advanced Studies
RELH	205	Biblical Archaeology	8-9
ENGL	454	Literature of the Bible
SOCI	449	Sociology of Religion
RELT	418	Aesthetics and Spirituality
RELH	455	Early Church History
HIST	456	Medieval and Modern Church History
HONR	349	Religion in a Social Context
		(for general studies honors students only)
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