| What kind
of education best prepares students for the modern world?
The School of Arts and Humanities emphasizes education
that seeks and creates connections, combining critical
with creative thought, theory with practice, and arts
and humanities with other fields of knowledge. Our goal
is to foster in students intense curiosity informed
by rigorous attention and the ability not only to solve
challenging problems but also to communicate the process
and importance of the solution.
You will find a rich array of courses in the School
of Arts and Humanities. We offer courses in literature,
foreign languages, history, philosophy, music, dance,
drama, film, and the visual arts.
We also offer innovative programs like
Arts and Technology that connect the worlds of engineering,
humanities and the creative arts. Our program in
Translation Studies and our
Center for Translation Studies are internationally
renowned.
What distinguishes our program is this: we always try
to present each field as part of an integrated and coherent
curriculum rather than as separate and distinct bodies
of knowledge.
The School offers five undergraduate majors.
Literary Studies,
Historical Studies,
Art & Performance, and Arts & Technology offer a thorough training
in one area that is offered within the context of larger
humanistic issues. The major in
Arts & Humanities allows students to build a
personalized program that integrates aspects of the
other majors.
At the graduate level we currently offer M.A., M.A.T.
and Ph.D. degrees in Humanities. This unique graduate
program provides students a flexible, interdisciplinary
context in which to pursue a personalized course of
study. Rather than identifying narrow, fixed disciplinary
areas, we have designed our graduate degrees around
three broadly defined areas of interest: Aesthetic Studies
(HUAS), History of Ideas (HUHI) and Studies in Literature
(HUSL). The interrelationship and mutual influence of
these broad areas is emphasized as the essential aspect
of this approach to graduate education.
Consistent with our commitment to connections and interdisciplinary
education, the school has no conventional departments.
This flexible design allows faculty members to create
learning communities based on mutual interests and in
response to the educational needs of students.
The School of Arts and Humanities offers the advantages
of a research university and the nurturing atmosphere
of a liberal arts college.
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