Humanities and Social Sciences Degree
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.
Degree Requirements
Area I – Foundation Skills - 2 hours
| FSL 101 | Foundations of Scholarship and Learning | 2 |
FSL 101 is required for new and transferring students with less than 24 credit hours. Students must earn a "C" or higher in
FSL 101.
Area I - Rhetoric and Communication - 15 hours
Area I - Mathematics (choose one) - 3 or 4 hours
Area II - Arts and Humanities - 3 hours
Students must earn a "C" or higher in
PHIL 201.
Area II - Literature in English (choose one) - 3 hours
Area II - The Social Sciences - 6 hours
AND Choose one from the following:
| ECON 241 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 242 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| PSY 201 | General Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 211 | Psychology of Human Growth & Development | 3 |
| SOC 221 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
Area II - History - 6 hours
Choose one of two sequences:
| HIS 191 | World Civilization to 1500 | 3 |
| | and | |
| HIS 192 | World Civilization since 1500 | 3 |
| | or | |
| HIS 201 | History of the United States I | 3 |
| | and | |
| HIS 202 | History of the United States II | 3 |
Area II - The Natural Sciences: Biology - 7-8 hours
Choose one from the following:
Area II - The Natural Sciences: Physical Sciences
Choose one from the following:
Humanities and Social Science Core - 21 hours
| ANTH 475 | Senior Seminar in Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| GEOG 301 | Cultural Geography | 3 |
Choose one course at the 300 level or higher from each area listed below:
| ANTH | ANTH Elective | 3 |
| PHIL | PHIL Elective | 3 |
| PSY | PSY Elective | 3 |
| REL | REL Elective | 3 |
| SOC | SOC Elective | 3 |
Students must earn a "C" or higher in all Humanities and Social Science Core.
Humanities and Social Science Electives - 36 hours
Choose 36 hours from ANTH, COM, CRJ, ECON, ENG, GEOG, HIS, PHIL, REL, PSY and/or SOC at the 300 level or higher. Core and general electives should be selected to complete a minor in at least one of these subject areas.
Students must earn a "C" or higher in all Humanities and Social Science electives.
General Electives - 16-20 hours
Select sufficient courses from any academic discipline to bring the total hours for graduation to a minimum of 120.
Total GEC Credit Hours (43-47 hours)
Total Humanities & Social Science Core (21 hours)
Total Humanities & Social Science Electives (36 hours)
Total General Electives (16-20 hours)
120 minimum hours required for graduation.