All rights reserved. Students study paintings, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, and philosophy, to discover the nature of humankind and the values held by those living during a particular historical period.
Students learn to look at the concerns of other cultures and to evaluate their own values.
Humanities majors may later specialize in any of the fine arts, literature, and philosophy or in the history of the arts of a particular period or country. Survey courses include the study of the arts of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and ethnic American groups. At first I thought this class would focus strictly on art appreciation. However, I quickly learned that Survey of Humanities was much more interesting. This class studies the significance of the Arts to the cultures that created them.