Civics and Humanities Minor
In this minor, students take two related kinds of courses. Some courses are those related to the American Founding and Re-Founding Documents, such as the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, or other sources created in the country’s founding era which remain central to our national political tradition today. Additionally, students also courses take courses focused on earlier great themes and texts from humanities traditions which influenced the American Founding. That humanistic inheritance included ancient Greek and Roman letters, the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Renaissance, and the specifically British context of the Founding, including the English legal tradition.
The Civics and Humanities minor is a true program in the Liberal Arts, the broad study of humanities for the twin ends of fostering individual flourishing and of preparing citizens to make informed contributions to American society.
This minor is ideal for students who want to learn great ideas of leadership. They gain this through familiarity with the great, perennial problems facing human societies and individual people in their lives, and the experience articulating and debating those ideas carefully and respectfully in classroom environments.
Minor Requirements (18 hours)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| A. Foundational Courses | ||
| Select two from the following: | 6 | |
| Freedom Papers: Narratives of Race and Nation | ||
| United States History to 1865 | ||
| American Founding Documents | ||
| Introduction to Philosophy | ||
| American National Government | ||
| B. Pertinent Upper-Level Courses | ||
| Select four courses from the following list from at least two different subjects: | 12 | |
| Black Experience in the United States to 1865 | ||
| The American Civil Rights Movement | ||
| The Renaissance | ||
| The Enlightenment | ||
| Great Books of the Western World I | ||
| Shakespeare's Tragedies | ||
| Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories | ||
| Milton | ||
| American Literature to 1830 | ||
| Origins of Capitalism | ||
| History of Capitalism 2: From the Industrial Revolution to the Global Economy | ||
| History of Freedom | ||
| Constitutional History of the United States | ||
| Constitutional History of the United States | ||
| Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy | ||
| Law and Religion | ||
| Disobedience, Dissent, and Revolution | ||
| Ancient Philosophy | ||
| Greek and Roman Philosophy after Aristotle | ||
| Jurisprudence | ||
| Social and Political Philosophy | ||
| Classical and Medieval Political Theory | ||
| Modern Political Theory | ||
| Contemporary Political Theory | ||
| The Conduct and Formulation of United States Foreign Policy | ||
| Constitutional Law I: Institutional Powers | ||
| Constitutional Law II: Civil Liberties | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |