Undergraduate Programs
Humanities Major
     
Regulations effective September 1, 2007

Athabasca University has developed program learning outcomes that describe the career options that may be available to you upon graduating. Students complete the program regulations in effect at the time of their enrolment.
     

Requirements within the 120 credits required for the BA.

The following regulations for the four-year Bachelor of Arts, Major in Humanities are designed to ensure that on completing the major a student will possess:

• good writing, critical thinking, and library research skills

• a basic reading knowledge of a second language

• experience in interdisciplinary study within the humanities

• experience of two or more traditional intellectual disciplines
  within the humanities, and

• have taken a reasonable proportion of specialized courses at
  the 400 (fourth-year) level.

Students who have any doubt about their essay writing, critical thinking, or library research skills are strongly advised to take one or more of the following courses at the outset of their university studies:
ENG 255, PHIL 252, INFS 200.

     
     
 

Recommendation

Students enrolled in the second undergraduate degree program are advised to select courses within the major that fulfill the Social Science requirements. Failure to do so could result in the student being required to complete more than 60 credits in order to fulfill all of the regulations.

     
1.  

60 credits in designated major courses including a minimum of 30 senior (300 and 400) level credits (a minimum of 12, 400-level credits).

     
2.  
Within these 60 credits students must also meet the language requirement by completing one of the following Athabasca University courses:
     
FREN 201 First Year University French II
or
 
SPAN 301 Second Year Spanish II (3)
INST 212 First Year University Cree II (3)

 

   
 

Students may count the language course as 3 credits towards the 30 credits required in the following designated elective courses.

   
3.  

A minimum of 30 credits selected from the following interdisciplinary core courses including a minimum of 6 senior (300 or 400) level credits.

All courses labelled HUMN

 

   
ARHI 201 A Survey of Western Art (3)
ARHI 202 A Survey of Western Art II (3)
CMNS 358 Popular Culture and the Media (3)
ENGL 303 A History of Drama - Part I: Early Stages (3)
ENGL 304 A History of Drama - Part II: Modernist Theatre (3)
ENGL 358 Literature of the Americas (6)
ENGL 401 The Faust Theme (3)
ENGL 423 Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism (3)
GLST 308 Americas: An Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean (3)
HIST 371 The Medieval World I: The Early Middle Ages (3)
HIST 372 The Medieval World II: The High Middle Ages (3)
HIST 373 The Renaissance (3)
HIST 374 The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation (3)
HIST 404 The Historical Foundations of Modern Science (3)
HIST 407 The Enlightenment (3)
PHIL 371 Ethics, Science, Technology, and the Environment (3)
RELS 204 Introduction to World Religions (6)
WMST 400 Feminism in the Western Tradition (3)
     

 

A minimum of 30 additional credits selected from among the core courses or from among the following electives:

All courses labelled ENGL, except all 100-level English courses and ENGL 255 Introductory Composition.

All courses labelled HIST

 
     
ANTH 318 Ancient Civilizations of the Americas (3)
CMNS 301 Communication Theory and Analysis (3)
CMNS 302 Communication in History (3)
CMNS 420 Children and Media (3)
CMNS 423 The Television Age (3)
CMNS 425 Film and Genre (3)
FREN 363 Le roman français du XXe siecle (3)
FREN 374 Introduction a la litterature canadienne-française (6)
GLST/HIST 307 The Pacific Century (3)
GLST/HIST 377 Twentieth-Century China (3)
INST 342 Issues in Native Education (3)
INST/HIST 368 History of Canada's First Nations to 1830 (3)
INST/HIST 369 History of Canada's First Nations from 1830 (3)
INST/HIST 370 The Métis (3)
LBST 331 Women, Workers and Farmers (3)
MUSI 267 Sound and Sense: Listening to Music (3)
PHIL 252 Critical Thinking (3)
POLI 307 Political Ideologies (3)
WMST 266 Thinking From Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies (3)
WMST 401 Contemporary Feminist Theory (3)
WMST 444 Feminist Research Methodology (3)
WMST 465 Special Projects in Women's Studies
(3)
WMST 467 Special Projects in Women's Studies (3)


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