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Humanities
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Academic Director, Professor P. Narayanan. Faculty: Because the humanities program is an interdisciplinary pursuit, contributing faculty members come from a variety of departments.
The Bachelor of Arts in Humanities is an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree program in which students combine study in English (including work in professional writing and rhetoric), history (including work in public history and western history), digital technology and culture (including multimedia authoring and electronic research), fine arts, Spanish, or to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies with study in a second humanities field, a social science field (including anthropology, political science, psychology, sociology, and criminal justice), business, or human development.
The program offers students, in consultation with their advisors, the flexibility to shape courses of study that meet a wide range of educational goals and that can prepare students for a variety of careers and graduate and professional programs.
The Bachelor of Arts in Humanities emphasizes analysis, synthesis, and communication–skills increasingly in demand in southwest Washington's rapidly evolving economy.
All students must complete the University-level General Education Requirements as described elsewhere in this catalog. Entering students must have at least a 2.0 transfer GPA. Above and beyond the General Education Requirements, the College of Liberal Arts requires an additional six semester hours of arts and humanities or social science course work, two semester hours of science with a lab, and a foreign language requirement (either two years of the same language in high school or one year of the same language in college. All humanities majors must complete a minimum of 39 semester hours of departmental course work, 21 of which must be upper-division. Students may organize these 39 departmental credits in one of two ways:
- Earn at least 24 semester hours (of which 15 semester hours must be upper-division) in a chosen primary concentration and at least 15 semester hours (of which 6 semester hours must be upper-division) in a chosen secondary concentration; or
- Combine three closely-related humanities areas, earning at least 9 credits in each. Beyond the credit distribution requirements, there are no specific course curriculum requirements.
Beyond the credit distribution requirements, there are no specific course curriculum requirements.
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