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Twin Cities Campus

Humanities in the West Minor

College of Liberal Arts - Adm

College of Liberal Arts

Students will no longer be accepted into this program after Summer 2011. Program requirements below are for current students only.

Program Type: Undergraduate free-standing minor
Requirements for this program are current for Spring 2016
Required credits in this minor: 18

Humanities offers integrated study of areas of civilization and major humanistic problems, drawing mainly on primary sources in literature, philosophy, history, and the arts and on relevant aspects of the human and natural sciences. This breadth of perspective provides an understanding of men and women as heirs to and creators of civilization, concerned with values and the development of the whole person.

Program Delivery

This program is available:

via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)

Minor Requirements

The minor program must be approved by the humanities program coordinator. No more than one 3xxx-4xxx course in the program may be taken directed study, directed instruction, or independent study. All courses must be taken A-F.

Minor Courses

No more than one 1xxx HUM course may be taken to fulfill this requirement.

Take 12 or more credit(s) from the following:

Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:

· HUM 1001 {Inactive} [AH] (4.0 cr)

· HUM 1002 {Inactive} [AH] (4.0 cr)

· HUM 1003 {Inactive} [AH] (4.0 cr)

· HUM 1004 {Inactive} [AH] (4.0 cr)

· HUM 1005 {Inactive} [AH] (4.0 cr)

· HUM 1006 {Inactive} [AH, GP] (4.0 cr)

· Take 2 or more course(s) from the following:

· HUM 3001 {Inactive} [AH] (4.0 cr)