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The Humanities Department at 菠菜网lol正规平台 is a prominent center for innovative and interdisciplinary 学习与研究. We offer three different 英航计划 for our students: the Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation BA; the 创意艺术学士; and the 人文英航, in which students pursue a concentration in American Studies, Liberal Arts, or Comparative 宗教研究.

The Liberal Studies Teacher Prep BA offers several pathways toward 成为一名教师 in the State of California. In the last few years, we have opened up new pathways that allow eligible students to complete the credential and that reduce barriers to 成为一名教师. We are especially excited about the Bilingual (Spanish/English) Pathway as it will help to grow the numbers of bilingual teachers in the state.

The 创意艺术学士 is a cutting-edge program in the interdisciplinary arts in which student pay close attention to the creative process and the use of the arts for social 正义. (Consider the role of murals in the #BLM Movement, for example.)

Our traditional Humanities curriculum has grown from offering an integrated perspective on western civilization to embracing a more global view that responds to developments in global human rights, social 正义, immigration, technology, the arts, cultures, education, and communications. The Department is currently pivoting towards the New Humanities, especially the Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Global Humanities, and Human-Animal Studies. These exciting new directions provide students with additional toolkits that will further help them to address some of the most important questions of our time—what is the role of technology in our lives and what role does the Humanities play in developing an ethics for a tech-intensive world? How can humans work to imagine, develop, and educate for sustainable and equitable futures? How do the Humanities help us to analyze and critique transnational flows of migration, commerce, de/colonization, 和文化? What can thinking about nonhuman animals teach us about culture, ecology, and the exercise of power? What does responsibility towards 一个 another look like on local and global levels? How can we respond with vision and compassion to global patterns of displacement, dispossession, and migration?

这 new turn for the Department is perhaps most evident in our two newest courses:

• HUM 95: Introduction to Digital Humanities
• AMS 139: Animals and Society. 

Our faculty in all of these areas are well-published and committed to serious scholarship and creative work as well as to forms of public scholarship and the scholarship of engagement, which often reach a wider audience. We are teacher-scholars who are experts at the use of high-impact practices and who are able to inspire our students. 这 is important because student learning is at the core of the Department's mission. 

The Humanities Department is also home to several minor programs and to two team-taught, multiple-semester General 教育 项目: the lower-division American Cultures GE sequence and the 人文学科荣誉 Program, which has both lower and upper-division 人文学科荣誉 course sequences.

Thank you for your interest in the Humanities Department at 菠菜网lol正规平台!