Undergraduate Program Calendar 2009|10

Humanities Major


Regulations amended, effective September 1, 2009 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.

The following regulations 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. Requirements within the 120 credits required for the four-year BA with major.

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	(3)
GERM 203	Introductory German II or	(3)
GERM 306	German for Reading Knowledge or	(3)
INST 212	First Year University Cree II or	(3)
SPAN 301	Second Year Spanish 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.


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)
HUMN	All courses
PHIL 371	Ethics, Science, Technology, and the Environment	(3)
RELS 204	Introduction to World Religions	(6)
WMST 400	Feminism in the Western Tradition	(3)


	At least 30 additional credits from among the core courses or from among the following electives:


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)
ENGL	All courses, except all 100-level English courses and ENGL 255
FREN 363	Le roman français du XXe siecle	(3)
FREN 374	Introduction a la litterature canadienne-française	(6)
HIST	All courses
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 200	Feminist Research and Women's Lives	(3)
WMST 266	Thinking From Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies	(3)
WMST 401	Contemporary Feminist Theory	(3)
WMST 465	Special Projects in Women's Studies	(3)
WMST 467	Special Projects in Women's Studies	(3)

	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.


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