Five professors in their full doctoral regalia stand on the 7th Street Paseo before entering the event center for Spring 2025 Graduation.
Dr. Funie Hsu/Chhî, Dr. Eleni Duret, Dr. Kim Knight, Dr. Erica Colmenares, and Dr. Daniel Rivers attend Spring 2025 Graduation to celebrate our students' accomplishments

Welcome

We are at the crossroads of academic study and practice. Our faculty and students engage with each other through coursework, scholarship, teacher training, and creative endeavor. Together, we use a full range of humanities, critical, creative, and social scientific tools to unravel our shared problems and seek answers to our biggest questions. We work to understand and explain a variety societies, regions, and cultures; religions and philosophies; the full range of human arts and literatures; looking across past and present; seeking strengths and weaknesses, problems and successes. Our graduates go on to be K-8 teachers, public servants, journalists, political actors, arts and museum administrators, and more. Students in other majors can also enrich and expand their undergraduate experience by fulfilling many of their General Education requirements with us.

Majors, Minors, and Certificates
Creative Arts
Creative Arts: Therapy (coming F26)
Environmental Humanities (certificate)
Humanities: American Studies
Humanities: Liberal Arts
Humanities: Religious Studies
Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation (eight tracks to K-8 teacher certification)
Middle East Studies (minor)

Department Events & Announcements

Advising

A list of faculty advisors by degree program and how to contact them.

About Us

Learn about the Humanities Department, our mission, our faculty and staff, and more.

BA Programs

The Department of Humanities is proud to offer 3 degree programs, 2 GE programs and several minors that compliment any degree pathway.

Faculty/Staff Directory

Meet the Department of Humanities Faculty and Staff!

Donate

Our department couldn't be as successful as it is without your support. We contribute to student success through various scholarships, programs, workshops, and more. Consider making a donation to help promote and enhance scholarly success and achievement.