IGE Minor: Global Humanities

Description

The minor forces shaping our era, such as the internet, the global economy, and environmental change, are global in scope and require multiple perspectives to be properly understood. Twenty-first-century life and work thus require knowledge and skills that transcend geographical and disciplinary boundaries. Responding to these demanding circumstances, the Global Humanities Minor prepares students to succeed by utilizing multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives to analyze the shared global issues and systems that will shape their lives. These issues include: international commerce, transborder migrations, cross-cultural communications, global technological revolutions, and a shared climate crisis.

Mission and Values

Mission

Prepare students to lead globally conscious, socially responsible, productive, satisfying, and ethical lives in a changing diverse world.

Vision

The Global Humanities Minor trains students to become global citizens who employ interdisciplinary methods of analysis as the foundation for critical thought and action to effectively navigate and create positive change in global systems.

Minor Requirements


The Global Humanities Minor complements any major by developing critical thinking, teamwork, and transferable skills valued across industries, especially in an increasingly global and unpredictable job market. For STEM students, it highlights strong humanities competence and global awareness—key traits of well-rounded, competitive STEAM graduates.

 

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Students admitted before Fall 2021 may use , , and  for their minor.

IGE Upper Division

Select at least one IGE course

 

Non-IGE

Select from courses below to complete electives

  • 3343 - Arts of Korea (3)
  • ENG 3011: Literature, Power, and Politics (3)
  • ENG 4740: Chinese Civilization and Culture (3)

FAQ


The Global Humanities Minor is intended to compliment diverse majors across campus through its cultivation of “big-picture” thinking, its focus on teamwork and the transferable skills that employers desire, and its conscious integration of diverse polytechnic disciplines. 

By adding a Global Humanities Minor to majors in STEM fields (as well as to other majors such as Hospitality Management and Agriculture), students demonstrate key skills that will make them more competitive in their fields. While it benefits all majors, the Global Humanities Minor is of particular interest to STEM majors at ÁùÉ«Íø. The acronym STEM has now been largely replaced by STEAM, a shift celebrating the renewed emphasis of the value of the arts and humanities for the sciences. Students who adopt the Global Humanities Minor signal to employers that they have strong competence in humanities skills and global awareness, making them true STEAM graduates. 

Moreover, fields such as engineering have advocated a “T-shaped approach” to education. In this model, the vertical line represents the core of the engineering degree which must be closely integrated with the horizontal line that represents a strong Liberal Arts foundation. A Liberal Arts foundation bridges academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences (as distinct from professional and technical subjects) to develop advanced skills in “ethics, global knowledge, intercultural literacy, and strong communication and [collaboration].” 

The skills students develop through the Global Humanities Minor give them the flexibility and broader ability to navigate an increasingly unpredictable and global world of work. Students in STEM fields who wish to have the full range of their polytechnic skills evinced on their transcripts can pick up the minor at any point in their career at ÁùÉ«Íø.