Humanities Minor

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Dr. Leah Tolbert Lyons

The Humanities minor is an undergraduate program that promotes intellectual inquiry through the humanities, exploring a variety of topics relative to the modern human condition thought and values as depicted in literature, film, and culture. Through the Humanities minor, students will understand ways in which various peoples throughout history and across geographic boundaries have expressed ideals and values rooted in/surrounding the human condition. The Humanities minor enhances one’s ability to critically assess texts and ideas and to aptly communicate these assessments-skills that allow students to make effective contributions in the community and in the workplace. The minor requires 15 hours of upper-division courses in the HUM rubric.

Courses (15 hours)

Select 15 hours from the courses below:

HUM 3000 - Topics in Foreign Language Linguistics 3 credit hours
HUM 3050 - Introduction to Russian Culture 3 credit hours
HUM 3060 - From Atom to Akira: The Development of Japan’s Popular Culture 3 credit hours
HUM 3065 - Topics in Italian Culture 3 credit hours
HUM 3070 - Brazilian Popular Culture 3 credit hours
HUM 3080 - Cultures of Switzerland 3 credit hours
HUM 3110 - Cityscapes: Paris in Love and War 3 credit hours
HUM 3365 - Hispanic Writers in American Literature 3 credit hours
HUM 3400 - Contemporary African Literature and Film 3 credit hours
HUM 3500 - Latino Images in U.S. Film 3 credit hours
HUM 3550 - Graphic Novels about the Middle East 3 credit hours
HUM 3600 - Israeli Cinema 3 credit hours
HUM 3950 - Women in the Middle Ages 3 credit hours
HUM 4000 - Women of the Middle East: Representations and Perceptions 3 credit hours
HUM 4550 - The Grail Legend in Film and Literature 3 credit hours
HUM 4610 - Comparative Literature 3 credit hours