Humanities and Social Sciences
The Humanities and Social Science major is designed to provide a value centered education focused on understanding oneself, one’s society, one’s history, one’s culture, and the increasingly multi-cultured nature of one’s world. The student will be helped to find vision and purpose in life for contribution to and integration into his or her world. This program provides a broad based liberal arts education with one or more areas of concentration for meeting the challenges of the 21st Century and for pursuing graduate studies in a variety of fields.
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Humanities and Social Sciences is designed to provide the student an opportunity for concentration in one or more areas of interest within the humanities and social sciences with reinforcement from related disciplines. While focus and concentration is provided in a particular discipline, a broader based education is provided through connecting the humanities with social sciences. A capstone course, ANTH 475, Senior Seminar in Humanities and Social Sciences, is required during the last term of the senior year. This course is a broad, integrating experience in the humanities and social sciences, requiring both oral and written work based on the student’s own research. The degree is a liberal arts degree that equips the student for a variety of professional opportunities or to pursue graduate specialization in a variety of fields including law, human relations, politics, the behavioral sciences, and religious ministry. It further provides and understanding and context for functioning effectively in the multicultural world of the 21st Century.