Bachelor of Arts, Minor in Humanities

Regulations effective Sep. 1, 2024.

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 Sep. 1, 2024 to Aug. 31, 2025.

Updated July 11, 2024 by Office of the Registrar (calendar@athabascau.ca)