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Bachelor of Arts, Minor in Humanities

Regulations effective September 1, 2022.

Total Number of Required Credits: 30, of which 15 must be at the senior (300 of 400) level.

Required courses

(the core, 15 credits to be selected from this list)

CMNS 358 Popular Culture and the Media (3)
ENGL 255 Introductory Composition (3)
HIST 407 The Enlightenment (3)
HUMN/HIST 201 Western Thought and Culture I: Before the Reformation (3)
HUMN/HIST 202 The West from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century (3)
INFS 200 Information Seeking and Society in the Information Age (3)
PHIL 252 Critical Thinking (3)

Elective courses

(15 credits, to be selected from this list or from the above list of required courses)

ANTH 275 Faces of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
ANTH 277 The Archaeology of Ancient Peoples (3)
ANTH 320 Ancient Cities and Civilizations (3)
ANTH 354 Language and Culture (3)
ARHI 201 A Survey of Western Art I: Looking at Art from Ancient Times to the Middle Ages (3)
ARHI 202 A Survey of Western Art II: Looking at Art from the Renaissance to Present Day (3)
CMNS 302 Communication in History (3)
CMNS 401 Cultural Policy in Canada (3)
CMNS 423 The Television Age (3)
ENGL 303 A History of Drama Part I: Early Stages (3)
ENGL 304 A History of Drama Part II: Modernist Theatre (3)
ENGL 373 Film and Literature (3)
ENGL 423 Advanced Literary Theory (3)
GLST 308 Americas: An Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean (3)
HIST 216 Europe: 1618 – 1939: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Dictators (3)
HIST 371 Early Medieval Europe, 400 – 1000 (3)
HIST 372 High Medieval Europe, 1000 – 1350 (3)
HIST 373 The Renaissance (3)
HIST 404 Historical Foundations of Modern Science (3)
HUMN/CLAS/HIST 309 Ancient Greece (3)
HUMN/MUSI 285 History of Popular Music I: Blues to Big Bands, 1900-1940 (3)
INST 203 Indigenous Studies I (3)
MUSI 267 Sound and Sense: Listening to Music (3)
PHIL 231 Introduction to Philosophy: West and East (3)
PHIL 342 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy (3)
PHIL 371 Ethics, Science, Technology and the Environment (3)
POLI 355 Political Philosophy: Plato to Machiavelli (3)
POLI 357 Political Philosophy: Hobbes to Human Rights (3)
RELS 204 Introduction to World Religions (6)
WGST 201 An Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (3)
WGST 333 Goddess Mythology, Women’s Spirituality, and Ecofeminism (3)
Information effective Sept. 1, 2022 to Aug. 31, 2023.

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Updated March 14, 2023 by Office of the Registrar (calendar@athabascau.ca)

https://www.athabascau.ca/calendar/2022/ c3de181e0a2a55f3406c70625df239ae