Leadership in the Humanities

The humanities — academic disciplines that allow us to interpret human culture — are central to the mission of a liberal arts education. Through areas of study such as literature, religion, visual and performing arts, and social sciences, students discover new perspectives on the world and learn to see, evaluate, and communicate the human experience. 

Georgetown College is home to many academic departments and programs that provide a thorough exploration of the humanities, be it through literary texts, artistic creations, material objects, or critical concepts.

Whether dedicated exclusively to humanistic studies or incorporating it alongside scientific analysis, each of these courses of study contains an emphasis on some aspect of the humanities as part of its core curriculum:

 

African American Studies

French and Francophone Studies

Americas Initiative

German

American Studies Program

Government

Anthropology

History

Arabic and Islamic Studies

Italian

Art and Art History

Journalism

Catholic Studies

Justice and Peace

Classics

Linguistics

Comparative Literature

Medieval Philosophy

East Asian Languages and Culture

Political Economy

Eastern Mediterranean Languages 

Slavic Languages                    

Education, Inquiry, and Justice

Sociology                                                  

English

Spanish and Portoguese

European Studies

Theology

Faculty of Languages and Linguistics

Women’s and Gender Studies

Film and Media Studies