850/644-9121Certificate Program in the Humanities
The Certificate Program is designed to provide Graduate students in
the Humanistic areas of the Liberal Arts with an interdisciplinary curriculum
to widen the scope of their field of studies as well as to increase
the opportunities for teaching jobs at a higher education level.
The Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities provides majors of specific
humanistic fields with a repertoire of various discourses, representations
and ways of inquiry in: Visual Arts, Music, Philosophy, History, Dance
and Theatre, Culture and Media Studies, Religion, Cultural Anthropology,
Classics, Modern Languages, Medieval European Studies, American Studies,
Multicultural and Cross-cultural Studies, and Modern and Post-Modern
cultures.
For the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities there is no opposition
between specialized knowledge and interdisciplinary knowledge. This
is consistent with the erasing of boundaries among the disciplines that
have taken place since the middle of the Twentieth century. Students
and scholars approach their objects of study from more than one perspective
and in collaborative and dialogical intellectual environment.
The Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities thus provides an academic
space for conversation among disciplines as well as develops professionals
that can collectively approach problem related to culture and society.
Certificate Program Requirements
This is an 18 hour non-degree program open to students in the M.A.
and Ph.D. programs at FSU. The Certificate in the the Humanities would
provide a student holding or working toward an M.A. or Ph.D. in one
of the sub-disciplines of the Humanities (or indeed outside the discipline)
the requisite number of graduate hours in the Humanities (18) to be
qualified to teach Humanities at the junior college level. The following
are the required courses, all of which currently exist:
HUM 5227: Homer to Gothic
This course offers the student an analysis of Western Humanities in
its early period through a study of architecture, the arts, literature,
philosophy, religion, music. It focuses on the major cultural movements
of the ancient period. (3 credit hours)
HUM 5245: Renaissance to Enlightenment
This course offers the student an analysis of Western Humanities in
its middle period through a study of architecture, the arts, literature,
philosophy, religion, music. (3 credit hours)
HUM 5253: Modernity and Postmodernity
This course offers the student an interdisciplinary overview of Western
Humanities in its later period through a study of architecture, the
arts, literature, philosophy, religion, music, film. (3 credit hours)
HUM 6939: Pedagogy (Summer only)
This course is designed to develop mastery of content and pedagogical
skills in our graduate students who are candidates for teaching assistantships
for Undergraduate Multi-Cultural Film (HUM 3321). HUM 3321 services
1,250 Undergraduate students as a part of their requirements in the
Liberal Arts. Graduate students are trained in the relationship between
film and culture as well as approaches to teach film techniques and
the various hermeneutic approaches to cinema. (3 credit hours)
HUM 6939: Multi-Culturalism and the Critical Traditions
This course contextualizes modern critical theory in the critical tradition
of the West since Plato. Students read and analyze original works through
the method of textual exegesis. (3 credit hours)
HUM 5909: Culture and Media
The purpose of the course is to introduce Graduate Students to the theory
and practice of teaching Humanities and Culture in a digital environment.
The course fulfills the need for a course in online pedagogy in the
Interdisciplinary program in the Humanities. (2 credit hours)
HUM 5915: Technological and Online Training for Teaching Assistants
(Summer only)
This course provides Teaching Assistants with the background knowledge
to use in-class and online technology to effectively teach any of the
Humanities classes. (1 credit hour)
For a graphic representation of these requirements, click here.
Application Procedure
Students interested in the Certificate should contact:
Dr. David Johnson, Director
of the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities,
djohnson@english.fsu.edu
Phone:(850)644-0314
or
Dr. Maricarmen Martinez,
Assistant Director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities,
mmartine@mailer.fsu.edu
Phone:(850)645-1401