Developing a Program

Select courses in two different intellectual clusters for breadth and then select an area of focus for depth.

The requirement in short: five courses plus one concluding project chosen to fulfill the breadth and depth components.

Choose at least two courses in an area of focus selected from one of the following intellectual clusters (at least one of these two courses must be at the 2000-level or above):
- Art/art history, drama/theatre, and music (AR, MU, TH)
- Languages, literature, and writing/rhetoric (EN, SP, GN, WR, RH)
- History, humanities, philosophy, and religion (HI, HU, PY, RE)
Choose at least one course in an intellectual cluster outside the area of focus for the breadth component.
Choose one concluding project (inquiry seminar or practicum) in the area of focus taken after the completion of five courses in the Humanities and Arts. Two courses and an inquiry seminar or practicum (HU3900 or HU3910) in the same area of focus are the minimum to fulfill the depth component.
In foreign languages, students may take five language courses followed by an advanced-level course which serves as a practicum. See instructors in foreign languages for more information.

Questions for Planning:

What area of focus are you considering for your concluding inquiry seminar or practicum? What is its intellectual cluster? Identify at least one course outside that intellectual cluster. Choose several courses in your area of focus (try to find several that are at the 2000-level or 3000-level). Identify several different terms and multiple opportunities for a seminar or practicum as the concluding project in your area of focus. Every inquiry seminar and practicum is listed in the Office of the Registrar Class Schedule each term under the Humanities Department listings for HU3900 or HU3910. Each seminar or practicum has an enrollment limit of 12, so it is advisable to plan early and consider several options.

Terms in use:

An intellectual cluster is one of the following disciplinary groupings:

art/art history, drama/theatre, music (AR, MU, TH)
languages, literature, writing/rhetoric (EN, SP, GN, WR, RH)
history, humanities, philosophy/religion (HI, HU, PY, RE)

An area of focus is a specific field within an intellectual cluster. For example, music is an area of focus within the broader intellectual cluster of the arts.

The breadth component calls for taking at least one course in two different intellectual clusters.

The depth component calls for taking at least two courses and the concluding project in one area of focus. One of the courses in the area of focus must be at the 2000-level or 3000-level.

The concluding project must be completed through an inquiry seminar (HU3900) or practicum (HU3910). In foreign languages, most advanced-level courses include a practicum and may serve as the concluding project for the requirement. Consult foreign language instructors for more information.

Worksheet

Use the Humanities and Arts Requirement Worksheet (PDF) to plan your courses for the depth and breadth components.

The Desktop Reference also has some information from this page in a printable PDF format.