Please note: during the course of your Humanities studies, you will be required to take part in assessment activities, which typically will include faculty/administrative review of anonymous student papers and surveys of your learning experience.  Assessment helps the Program fulfill its stated Academic Learning Compact, which is provided at the bottom of this page.

Requirements for the Humanities B.A.

Lower Division Program

To qualify for admission to the program students must meet all the lower division requirements, including CLAST, the completion of 60 semester hours, and be otherwise acceptable to the program.

Upper Division Program

A. Core--4 courses are required of all Humanities major (12 hours): 

HUM 4431 The Greek World*
HUM 3232 Renaissance and Baroque
HUM 4920 Humanities Seminar* 

and one of the following: 

HUM 3246 The Enlightenment and the Modern World
or
HUM 3254 The Contemporary World
or
HUM 3252 20th Century Culture and Civilization 
 

B. Three additional Humanities Courses (9 hours): 

The student may choose any three courses with the HUM prefix 

C. Three additional upper division courses (9 hours). These courses may be either HUM courses or courses from the following Humanities disciplines:  History, Philosophy, Religion, Art History, Literature as well as other related disciplines as approved by a Humanities advisor. 

*With a change in theme and the instructor's permission, these courses may be repeated for credit. 

Classics Track:
Students may choose to specialize in Greek and Roman civilization if they wish. 

A. Humanities core Curriculum (12 hours)
B. Three additional courses dealing with Greek or Roman civilization. These courses may be discipline courses of the contributing departments (9 hours)
C. Three Humanities (HUM) courses (9 hours) 

Minor in the Humanities (15 hours):  

A. One of the following (3 hours): 

HUM 3214 Ancient Classical Culture and Civilization
or
HUM 4431 The Greek World
or
HUM 3432 The Roman World
and

B. Four additional HUM courses (12 hours) 

Humanities Program Academic Learning Compact:

Mission Statement
 

The Humanities program seeks to give students an historically-oriented foundation in the several fields traditionally characterized as the humanities: history, philosophy, religious studies, art and art history, and literature.  The curriculum provides a coherent core, and yet also allows students to approach fundamental issues in the humanities from diverse perspectives. Students will thereby develop a more sophisticated understanding of the world and its historically shaped cultures

Student Learning Outcomes

FIU Humanities graduates should be able to achieve the following:

Content/Discipline Knowledge
1. Identify the historical, geographical, political or social contexts of diverse artistic or cultural works/documents.
2. Interpret artistic or cultural works/documents within a variety of field specific protocols (aesthetic, historical ideology, and other humanistic categories).

Critical Thinking
1. Analyze artistic or cultural works/documents in a non-impressionistic, complex manner.
2. Analyze and evaluate secondary arguments about artistic or cultural works/documents.

Oral and Written Communication

1. Present an extended argument on a humanities topic that is conceptually complex, original, well-organized, well-substantiated, and correct in terms of grammar and stylistics.
2. Present an extended argument on a humanities topic that appropriately integrates research findings.