The UW-Parkside Humanities Program

Some recent courses taught in the Humanities Program include:

• Introduction to Humanities: World Cultures through 1500 – taught by John Longeway (Ph.D., Cornell University) of the Philosophy Department
• Infectious Disease and Its Deadly Path – taught by Professor Carmel Ruffolo (Ph.D., Monash University, Australia) of the Biological Sciences Department
• Internet-Education-Democracy – taught by Professor Megan Mullen (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) of the Communication Department
• Gender in Modern European Visual Culture, 1900-1945 – taught by Professor Susan Funkenstein (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) of the Art Department
• Spanish and English in the United States : Intercultural Poetics – taught by Professor Alex McNair (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) of the Modern Languages Department

Humanities is a 35-credit major.

Required courses include:

• Six credits of 100-level introductory Humanities courses
• A 3-credit scholarship and methods course
• A 1-credit senior-level capstone course

Electives to equal at least 25 credits include:

• Applied skills courses
• Department-based courses as suited to a student’s program
• Humanities Topic Seminars—specially designed interdisciplinary courses
• Humanities Colloquia – 1 credit courses that focus on a specific event or shared experience (e.g., a trip to a play or museum, reading a novel, investigating a current news event)
• An array of self-paced courses