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Studying Humanities
The term humanities refers to the study of human intellectual and artistic creativity and the record of human experience as seen in the arts and letters. The Humanities major is, therefore, an interdisciplinary major drawing from literature, foreign languages, history, philosophy, visual art, and music, and a discipline in its own right with a methodology for the study of cultural and intellectual history and, to a lesser extent, aesthetics. The Humanities undergraduate curriculum, like single-discipline programs, emphasizes the development of skills in reasoning, critical thinking, language, writing, and library use. But the program's interdisciplinary curriculum serves students who seek more latitude than single-discipline programs offer in developing a broad and full program in the liberal arts that is not confined to one art form or national tradition.