Major and Minor Requirements

Major Requirements

The courses to be counted towards the Humanities major will be distributed as follows:

Required Core Humanities Course: Three hours in one of the following courses: HUM 2210, HUM 2235, or HUM 2250.

Primary Concentration: Fifteen semester hours in one of the following Humanities departments:

  • African-American Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Art History
  • Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Classical Studies
  • Communication
  • Digital Humanities
  • English
  • Film Studies
  • History
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Humanities
  • Modern Languages & Linguistics
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Secondary Concentration: Twelve semester hours in one of the departments listed above. The secondary department cannot be the same as the primary department.

Tertiary Concentration: Twelve semester hours in one of the departments listed above. The tertiary department must be different from both the secondary and primary departments.

Minor Requirements

The undergraduate minor may be accomplished in one of the two following ways:

  1. Fifteen semester hours, of which nine must be taken in one of the Humanities departments listed above, and six from one other Humanities department from the same list. Six hours must be numbered above 2999.
  1. Twelve semester hours in courses offered by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program.

For lists of courses that are applicable to the concentrations in African-American Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Communication, Digital Humanities, Film Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, or Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, please be in touch with either Prof. Kathryn Stoddard at kstoddard@fsu.edu or Shannon Tucker at srtucker@fsu.edu.