The Masters Program in the Humanities

The Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities offers two Master of Arts (MA) tracks:

- The Junior College Instructors Program, offered in conjunction with the College of Education, is designed primarily for the student whose immediate professional objective is teaching in a two-year college.

- The Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities and the Arts provides a graduate Liberal Studies degree program in the humanities and the arts.

For information about applying to the Graduate Program, click here.

All graduate students are required to make an appointment with the director of the program to approve course work for the following term. Please review all college-wide requirements summarized in the "College of Arts and Sciences" chapter in the Graduate Bulletin.

The Junior College Instructors Program

This is a thirty-six (36)-semester hour non-thesis program.

Requirements For Admission:
(a) An undergraduate major in one of the humanities area departments;
(b) A Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score of 1000
(c) A minimum grade point average of 3.0 or higher in all work attempted as an upper-division student working for a baccalaureate degree, and
(d) Three (3) letters of recommendation.

Requirements For the Degree:
(a) Nine (9) semester hours minimum in professional education courses EDH 5054, 5305, and 5306;
(b) Nine (9) semester hours in HUM 5227, 5245, and 5253;
(c) Nine (9) semester hours minimum in the department of the undergraduate major; (d) Nine (9) semester hours in a cluster of courses from at least two other departments in the humanities area, focusing on one cultural period;
(e) Certification of competency in reading a foreign or classical language;
(f) A comprehensive examination, and
(g) An internship.

The Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities and the Arts

This is a thirty-three (33)-semester hour non-thesis program.

Requirements For Admission:
(a) An undergraduate major in one of the humanities area departments;
(b) A Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score of 1000;
(c) A minimum grade point average of 3.0 or higher in all work attempted as an upper-division student working for a baccalaureate degree, and
(d) Three (3) letters of recommendation.

Requirements For the Degree:
(a) Nine (9) semester hours in HUM 5227, 5245, and 5253;
(b) Twelve (12) semester hours of courses focusing on a specific cultural period or theme;
(c) Twelve (12) semester hours of HUM 6939r or other appropriate courses, as follows:

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