Humanities
The common theme of the humanities - English, history, philosophy and religious studies - is the creative expression of human meaning. All of these programs can be taken as a major or as a minor. Faculty from these areas of study will assist you to investigate thinkers, theories, and texts
that have engaged people in the past and that raise relevant questions
for today.
Together with your involvement in the works and ideas of each discipline, as a student in the humanities you develop significant abilities:
- The ability to analyze: to become skilled at examining your own thoughts and responses as well as examining an object, an idea or a text.
- The ability to communicate: to use logical thought and language to express what you find: to make mystery and meaning intelligible, even useful, to yourself and your contemporaries.
- The ability to make subtle and complex value judgments: to perceive and explain human values, whether they are expressed symbolically in a work or art or are implied in an historic document.
- The ability to respond appropriately to aesthetic experience: you learn to synthesize course content with your experience and to respond from your own perspective - in fact, to develop your own perspective.
Your Next
Step
To learn more about Alverno's minor in Humanities,
contact the Admissions office at 414-382-6100, toll-free at 1-800-933-3401
or e-mail Admissions.
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