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Bachelor of Arts, Minor in Humanities

Regulations effective September 1, 2023.

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, 2023 to Aug. 31, 2024.

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Updated June 13, 2024 by Office of the Registrar (calendar@athabascau.ca)

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