Humanities
Studying the humanities provides you with opportunities to explore the human experience through a variety of approaches called “disciplines” such as: art and architecture, philosophy, literature, music, history, and languages. In Humanities courses, we use these disciplines to better understand a wide variety of topics: the influence of cultural values and world views, forms of political and social order, the origins and ongoing impacts of gender roles, and the effect of historic and environmental events on how individuals and societies perceive and project themselves. In effect, the Humanities ask the “big questions”: What does it mean to live a good life? How does the individual relate to