Mission
Statement
The mission of the Humanities Program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies is to stimulate humanities research, teaching, and service that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Faculty in the Humanities Program work together to develop coherent course offerings that are both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary in their design. The Humanities Program sponsors conferences and symposia to stimulate the creation of new knowledge in the humanities and to disseminate that knowledge.
Historically, the humanities have included those fields of study that rely extensively upon the methods of philosophical argument and its rules of inference to interpret, conceptualize, define, or describe historical, literary, linguistic, expressive, or sociological events. These methods remain central to all fields of human inquiry, especially literature, foreign languages, philosophy, religious studies, history, linguistics, theatre, art and art history, music, geography, certain sub-fields of cultural anthropology, and archaeology. Along with the methodologies used by these disciplines, the Humanities Program embraces methods of inquiry developed in other fields to address the diverse cross-cultural, gendered, and global scope of contemporary humanities concerns.
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