Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts
HUMANITIES

Flexibility is whatgymnasts train for years to obtain. But you don’t have to be an Olympic hopeful to want flexibility. The Humanities major at LMU might be just what you need! If you have a wide range of interests in the Liberal Arts, this might be the major for you. You will be able to explore the arts, history, literature, and foreign languages. If you were to look at LMU Humanities graduates, you would find them in interesting and challenging careers… practicing law, teaching high school, working in communications, publishing, and journalism. Humanities graduates are people with many interests, just like you.

If you major in humanities, you’ll be a part of the LMU's Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. The College is more fully described in other publications but here are a few essentials:

The Liberal Arts –Education that liberates your mind, nourishes your spirit, and cultivates your creativity for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

•Develop your ability to communicate
–Write dynamically
–Speak effectively
–Think clearly
–Build career skills
•Cultivate your critical and analytical thinking
–Dissect ideas
–Bring literature to life
–Critique social and economic problems
–Comprehend political systems and ideas
–Live the importance of social justice
–See the “bigger picture”
•Become aware of what influences you
–Explore the role of religion and values in society
–Seek a deeper understanding of faith
–Understand human behavior
–Discover multiple cultures and languages
–Examine the mosaic of American life
–Experience international education
•Energize your creativity
–Find innovative solutions
–Think “out of the box”
•Kindle your desire to serve
–Inspire others
–Know leadership as service

The College

FACULTY
Liberal Arts faculty – including those with worldwide reputations – are directly involved with students and their potential development. A majority of the faculty have terminal degrees from prestigious universities and are active in on-going scholarly investigations in their discipline. All are involved in undergraduate teaching and all academic counselors are drawn from their ranks.

MULTICULTURAL FOCUS
The College curriculum challenges students to explore ways to live more fully and to act more responsibly within our culturally diverse nation. While each department offers courses with a multicultural focus, African American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and the Asian Pacific American concentration offer a greater depth of study in this area. Additionally the American Cultures core requirement enriches the curriculum with a strong comparative approach.

INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
The College of Liberal Arts promotes an educational environment rich in contact with the issues facing our world today. It especially encourages language study as a basis for its international courses and for the various study abroad opportunities. The College recruits international students and a globally sophisticated faculty.

THE “What can I do with…?” QUESTION
Graduates of the College of Liberal Arts have made their marks in a wide variety of careers – education, government, public health, social service, business, communications, science and the arts. Some pursue doctoral studies in their major or attend law schools, business schools or medical schools. Among our alumni are corporate managers, entrepreneurs, university professors, high school and elementary teachers and administrators, editors, elected and appointed federal, state and local officials, lawyers, clergy, and community leaders.
The answer to “What can I do with a liberal arts degree?” is one full of variety and opportunity. Its answer may be sought after the more important question: “What kind of person can I become?”

The Humanities Major

Humanities is an interdisciplinary, interdepartmental major; you, the student, design your own program (within certain parameters) with the help of the Director. It is your major, emphasizing what you are interested in, and allowing you to study in depth what you want to study.
For the first portion of the major, you’ll become familiar with the Studio Arts, Art History, and a modern or classical language. For your junior and senior year, you’ll choose an area of concentration in one of the Liberal Arts disciplines. Two history courses and two literature courses then support that area of specialization, providing you with the literary and historical perspective relating to your chosen concentration.
The Humanities major at LMU provides a broad background in the Liberal Arts. The program is unique in that it allows you a thorough exploration of those disciplines that are central to the human understanding of modern society. You essentially design your major, in consultation with the Director of the program. If you wish to take flexibility into your own hands, while maintaining a solid career foundation, let the Humanities major open doors for you.

Meet the Director

Jane W. Crawford
Professor and Chair
B.A., Boston, 1968; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1974;
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981; FAAR, 1982.
M.T. Cicero: The Lost and Unpublished Speeches, 1984;
M.T. Cicero: The Fragmentary Speeches, 1994;
“Baudonivia’s Life of Radegund” in Women Saints in World Religions, 2000.
Cicero, Latin Literature, Classical Rhetoric, Roman History, Women in Classical Antiquity, Medieval Latin, Bede.

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