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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Humanities (BA)

Location(s): Manhattan Campus

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Humanities is a multidisciplinary major that deals with human thought and culture. Cultural study enables students to understand their own places in existing traditions and contribute positively to the development of new ones. Creativity, imagination, and interpretation are central to humanistic study. The humanities disciplines include American ethnic studies, anthropology, art, art history, communication studies, creative writing, dance, gender, women, and sexuality studies, history, literature, mass communications, modern languages, music, philosophy, and theater.

A student works closely with an interdisciplinary humanities advisor in the College of Arts and Sciences deans’ office to develop a plan of study with a thematic emphasis. The student’s humanities advisor may encourage him or her to confer with other humanities faculty members who have expertise in the area of the student’s interest. (Students who select music as a thematic emphasis must seek additional advising in the music department.)

Students must earn a C or better in all coursework applied to the Humanities Core, Humanities Concentration Area 1, Humanities Concentration Area 2, and Practicum/Applied Learning, including transfer work.

Kansas State University Core: 34-36 Credit Hours

KBOR Statewide Transfer (SWT) Courses: https://www.kansasregents.org/academic_affairs/transfer-articulation.

English (Written Communication Outcomes): 6 Credit Hours

Communication (Oral Communication Outcomes): 3 Credit Hours

Math & Statistics (Quantitative Literacy Outcomes): 3 Credit Hours

Natural & Physical Sciences (Natural & Physical Sciences Outcomes): 4-5 Credit Hours

Choose 1 subject area which must include a lab.

Social & Behavioral Sciences (Social & Behavioral Sciences Outcomes): 6 Credit Hours

At least 2 courses from 2 subjects under this area.

Arts & Humanities (Arts & Humanities Outcomes): 6 Credit Hours

At least 2 courses from 2 subjects under this area.

Free Electives (Institutionally Designated Area): 6 Credit Hours

Includes ALL 100 and 200 level courses at K-State or in Transfer. 
Note: One course may be used to satisfy more than one requirement. However, students must complete a total of 34-36 credit hours of general education courses.

For a Full Listing of K-State 100/200 level courses you may search those courses individually via the University Course Catalog.

TOTAL CREDITS: 34-36

Program Requirements

Orientation: (1 Credit Hour)

Outside Concentration: (9 Credit Hours)

Outside credential of at least 9 credit hours (May be from any unit, except Art, Media & Communication, Music, Theatre, and Dance, English, Modern Languages, Philosophy, OR from approved interdisciplinary credentials within the unit).

OR

Any 9 credit hours in a single prefix except ART, COMM, DANCE, ENGL, HIST, MLANG, ARAB, CHINE, CLSCS, FREN, GRMN, JAPAN, SPAN, PHILO, MUSIC, THTR (all must be 300 level or above OR at any level with a prereq in the same prefix; up to 5 credit hours may overlap with program).

OR

Any 9 credit hours in a microcredential (up to 5 credit hours may overlap with program).

Overlays: ([9] Credit Hours)

May be fulfilled in K-State Core, Outside Concentration, electives, or the Program itself.

  • Ethical Reasoning Overlay Credits: [3]
  • Global Perspectives Overlay Credits: [3]
  • US Multicultural Overlay Credits: [3]

Program

Humanities Foundational Courses: (9 Credit Hours)

Select 9 hours from below (3 credits from 3 different disciplines)

Humanities Concentration Area 1: (12 Credit Hours)

12 credits from one of the following disciplines; minimum 9 credits at the 300-level or above; course topics must be humanistic in nature: ARAB, ART, CHINE, CLSCS, COMM, DANCE, ENGL, FREN, GRMN, HIST, JAPAN, MLANG, MUSIC, PHILO, SPAN, THTRE 

Humanities Concentration Area 2: (12 Credit Hours)

12 credits from one of the following disciplines AND not duplicated above in Concentration Area 1; minimum 9 credits at the 300-level or above; course topics must be humanistic in nature: ARAB, ART, CHINE, CLSCS, COMM, DANCE, ENGL, FREN, GRMN, HIST, JAPAN, MLANG, MUSIC, PHILO, SPAN, THTRE

Practicum / Applied Learning: (1-3 Credit Hours)

Select one of the following course options

BA Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Restricted Electives: (6 Credit Hours)

3 credit hours in each of the following at any level or above OR at any level with a prerequisite in the same discipline.

Any course or combination of courses in Fine Arts: (3 Credit Hours)

May not duplicate any course taken in the concentration areas above.

One Non-Quantitative Social Science; Any Social course that does NOT have a MATH or STAT prereq Credits: 3

Any Social course that does NOT have a MATH or STAT prereq 

BA Natural and Quantitative Requirement: (6 Credit Hours)

One course in each of the following, with at least 3 credit hours total at 300 level or above OR at any level with a prerequisite in the same discipline.

Natural Science or Quantitative course: (3 Credit Hours)

Natural Science, or Quantitative, or Social Science with MATH or STAT: (3 Credit Hours)

BA Second Language Requirement: (3-16 Credit Hours)

Choose one of the following:

Option 1: (3-14 Credit Hours)

At least 3 credit hours of coursework culminating with level 4 or above (i.e., Frech 4, German 4, Spanish 4, etc.) or the equivalent of level 4 in a second language sequence.

Option 2: (16 Credit Hours)

At least 16 credit hours of coursework in which student takes the first and second levels of two different languages, selected from any language offered within the department of Modern Languages, ASL, or from any other second language transferred in at an equivalent level.

Option 3: (3 Credit Hours)

Students whose first language is not English may satisfy this requirement by meeting the English Proficiency Admission Standards for K-State or by completing the appropriate level of exit courses with the English Language Program.

Free Electives: (12-27 Credit Hours)

Additional courses so that the total credit hours completed equals 120.

Total Hours Required for Graduation: 120

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