Associate Professors--Scott, Steier
Minor in Humanities
M.A. in Humanities
Students who wish to base their careers on broad knowledge of American and world cultures will find this major applicable to posts in government, business, education, and the arts. Practical training in a specific professional field (library work, foreign teaching or career service, journalism, museum work, etc.) may well be taken in conjunction with the major or the minor in Humanities. Students earning the B.A. in Humanities may qualify themselves for high school teaching credentials in English or History through special advising and supplemental course work. Those earning the M.A. in Humanities are qualified to seek the Community College Instructor Credential.
For the B.A. in Humanities, students must complete a core of five courses (including a senior seminar) in basic methods of understanding culture through the humanities, and then choose combinations of courses in European, American, Asian, and Cross-Cultural Studies (the cross-cultural studies area consists of courses in which the subject matter is from another geographic area than the Americas, Europe, or Asia, and courses that specifically include a number of different cultures). In one of these culture-study areas, additional courses will be chosen, making it the area of emphasis in the major. Up to three appropriate courses in related departments such as ethnic studies, English, art, and music may be included in the major with an adviser's approval.
Students minoring in Humanities must complete four core courses and three additional courses in one or more of the culture-study areas, depending upon the emphasis desired.
The Master of Arts in Humanities is an interdisciplinary program which emphasizes the integrative study of culture, ideas, and the arts, with special concern for the questions of value--moral, intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic--that are inherent in major human expressions. It serves a variety of personal and career objectives, including preparation for advanced study in a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary degree programs in the humanities, as well as for teaching credentials in areas in which the master's degree is required.
The department's lower division General Education courses (HUM 130, 220, 225) or other lower division courses concerned with ideas, social conditions, and art forms are recommended for students planning to major or minor in Humanities. Study or practical experience toward mastery of a foreign language is strongly recommended along with the major or minor.
Units
HUM 301 Style and Expressive Forms 3
HUM 302 Theories and Methods in the
Humanities 3
HUM 303 Cultural Periods and Styles 3
HUM 425 Thought and Image 3
HUM 690 Senior Seminar 3
Three units selected from the following, or
other appropriate courses on advisement:
HUM 365 (great figures from outside Europe,
the Americas, and Asia); 375 (cities out-
side Europe, the Americas, and Asia);
courses numbered 310-399; 501 3
Six units selected from the following, or other
appropriate courses on advisement:
HUM 365 (European great figures); 375
(European cities); courses numbered
400-449, except 425 6
Six units selected from the following, or other
appropriate courses on advisement:
HUM 365 (American and Latin American
great figures); 375 (American and Latin
American cities); 376 (San Francisco);
courses 450-495 6
Six units selected from the following, or other
appropriate courses on advisement:
HUM 365 (Asian great figures); 375 (Asian
cities); courses numbered 507-549 6
Units selected from one of the above culture
study areas, or other appropriate courses
on advisement 6
Total units for the major 42NOTE:Up to three appropriate courses (nine units) in related departments or programs may be substituted for departmental course work in the culture-study areas.
HUM 301 Style and Expressive Forms 3
HUM 302 Theories and Methods in the
Humanities 3
HUM 303 Cultural Periods and Styles 3
HUM 425 Thought and Image 3
Three courses chosen on advisement in one
or more of the culture study areas of the
major. One of these (up to three units)
may be taken outside the department 9
Total units in the minor 21
Courses for this discipline are listed in alphabetical sequence (consult Index for page reference). With the graduate adviser's approval, most upper division Humanities Department courses may be used to satisfy a portion of the Master of Arts requirements.
Units
HUM 700 Introduction to Integrative Study 3
HUM 721 Culture and Style 3
Units selected from the following in the inte-
grative study of cultural expression, on
advisement (one course must be non-
Western) 6
HUM 710 Seminar in European Forms and
Culture
HUM 711 Seminar in American Forms and
Culture
HUM 712 Seminar in African Forms and
Culture
HUM 713 Seminar in Asian Forms and
Culture
Units selected under advisement from the
following: 6
HUM 701 Fine Arts in the Humanities
HUM 702 Literature in the Humanities
HUM 703 History in the Humanities
HUM 704 Philosophy in the Humanities
Units selected on advisement 3-6
HUM 720 Humanistic Themes
HUM 722 New Models in Humanistic
Studies
HUM 723 Contemporary Humanistic
Scholarship
Units selected on advisement with the graduate
coordinator and adviser 3-6
One of the following: 3
HUM 895 Special Project and Oral Defense
HUM 896 Directed Study in Selected
Humanistic Works and
Comprehensive Written and
Oral Examinations
HUM 898 Master's Thesis and
Oral Defense
Minimum total 30Culminating Experience.The chosen culminating experience (895, 896, or 898) should be integral with the
candidate's larger M.A. plan and with his/her longer career objective. It will be carried out in the final semester of work for the degree, with the aid of a graduate faculty member acting as sponsor and tutor; at least two other faculty members will serve with the sponsor on the student's M.A. committee and will join in evaluation of the culminating experience. The candidate must present a proposal for his/her culminating project in writing to a sponsor/tutor to initiate it.
Foreign Language.Reading proficiency in a foreign language is required. Under exceptional circumstances a candidate may petition to substitute demonstrable proficiency in an auxiliary skill that has a clear relationship to his/her M.A. program.