Humanities Major
Exciting Curriculum
In the Humanities major at Wheelock College, students investigate questions about value, identity, and meaning; explore the changing roles of women, people of color, and working people in society; and experience multidisciplinary studies that encourage both scholarship and imagination. Drawing upon literature, history, and philosophy, students develop an appreciation for their own intellectual heritage and the cultural legacies of people different from themselves. The expanded understanding of the human experience gained from the humanities is both an introduction to lifelong learning and growth and an excellent foundation for professional careers in the human services.
Major Courses
All Humanities majors take interdisciplinary courses at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels. Students also choose to focus on literature, history, or philosophy. Courses in the focus area include Epic Poetry, Shakespeare, The Sixties, World Religions, and Aesthetics. As a capstone experience, all students complete an advanced research seminar in their focus area.
Additional Degree Options
The Humanities major may be taken with or without a professional concentration. Students without concentrations complete an extra focus course at the intermediate or advanced level.
Students may also choose to complete a dual focus in which they expand their knowledge of the Humanities by taking an additional 16 credits in a second discipline.
Professional Advantages
- Excellent preparation for graduate school.
- Close mentoring relationship with faculty.
- Strong support for the improvement of writing and public speaking skills.
Faculty Highlights
The Humanities faculty at Wheelock are highly accomplished scholars and teachers. They are recognized nationally for the books, writing, and articles in their individual disciplines; for their work in developing multidisciplinary pedagogy; and for the innovative, rigorous, and exciting courses they teach.
Who You Can Become
The humanities expand experience and thinking, form the basis for lifelong learning and development, and contribute to the formation of an informed and active citizenry. The methods comprising these disciplines also help students gain skills and perspective that can applied to a wide variety of Wheelock professional concentrations and to preparation for advanced study at the graduate level.
Why Wheelock
Humanities majors at Wheelock benefit from the close collaboration with faculty and advising staff that a college of Wheelock's size can offer. Students also have access to hundreds of excellent course offerings through the Colleges of the Fenway — of which Wheelock is a member. So Wheelock students gain the best of both types of academic experience — the intimacy of a college setting and the array of course offerings usually available only at a large university.
Contact Information:
For any questions or further information concerning this or any Wheelock College major or concentration, please contact:
Wheelock College
Undergraduate Admissions
200 The Riverway
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 879-2206
1-800-734-5212
undergrad@wheelock.edu
www.wheelock.edu
