Heeding our founder’s mandate, we are honored to announce the newest addition to our course offerings; it became available Spring 2007.

HU 345: Classical African Civilizations
This course provides an intermediate level survey of the arts, philosophy, innovations, and architecture of ancient African cultures and civilizations, especially those that reflect “Classical Africanisms.” (3 credit hours)

The area expects to launch soon a degree-granting program in Humanities, a growing field in academia.  Its first specialty will be in African and Diaspora studies.

The Humanities Area continues to offer the survey courses that satisfy the general core requirements for all majors via its three historically arranged survey courses:
 
HU231: Ancient to Medieval Eras
A chronologically arranged, global survey of the period from prehistory to the 14^th century.  It focuses on the key events, literature, music, sciences, philosophy, and visual arts that express and define the values of selected cultures.  It includes attention to Egypt, India Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, China, Islam, and the European Middle Ages (3 credit hours)

HU 232: Renaissance to Enlightenment Eras
A chronologically arranged, global survey of the period from the 14^th century to the late 1700’s.  It focuses on the key events, literature, music, sciences, philosophy, and visual arts that express and define the values of selected cultures.  It includes attention to Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe’s Renaissance, Reformation and Baroque eras.

HU233: Romantic to Contemporary Eras
A chronologically arranged, global survey of the period from the 19^th century to the late 1700’s.  It focuses on the key events, literature, music, sciences, philosophy, and visual arts that express and define the values of selected cultures.  It includes attention to Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.  (3 credit hours)