Master of Humanities

Advisors

Dr. Omar Swartz, Program Director
Dr. Lorna Hutchison, Assistant Director
Dr. Margaret Woodhull, Assistant Professor

Individualized Program with a Thesis or Project Option

The Master of Humanities degree provides the opportunity for a student to fashion a course of study based on individual interests and goals.  Students choose two or three academic disciplines as areas of concentration in consultation with their faculty advisor. After completing 30 or 33 hours of coursework (depending on choice of thesis or project option), they will move on to their thesis or project.

Requirements:

36 credit hours total:

  • Three interdisciplinary seminars (9 credits total, 3 each):

  1. Foundations and Theories in Interdisciplinary Humanities
  2. Methods and Practices in Graduate Interdisciplinary Humanities
  3. Directed Research and Readings in Interdisciplinary Humanities
  • 21-24 credit hours of coursework selected in conjunction with the student's advisor
  • Final Project (3 credits) OR Thesis (6 credits) [must be a scholarly and/or creative exercise involving at least two disciplines]

Optional Tracks:

Students may concentrate their coursework and studies for the Master of Humanities degree by pursuing tracks in:

By focusing one's studies on a "track", the student is able to develop a concentrated and interdisciplinary master level expertise in a given area of interest.  Many of our MH students already have most of the requirements in place.  

For the MH tracks, the required courses include the three (3) existing required MH courses (the Core MH required courses everyone takes), in addition to focused required courses in the track concentration.