A major in General Studies with a focus in Humanities is an excellent foundation for students planning upper division academic work in the arts, letters, and social sciences or for those who wish to strengthen their knowledge, appreciation, and skills in the interrelated fields of history, culture, and the arts.

The student will have a heightened knowledge of cultural diversity in the world, and will be able to communicate how this diversity is reflected through the artistic and intellectual creations of humanity from the dawn of civilization to the present. • The student will gain increased knowledge of how the enduring questions of humanity center on the meaning and experience of human life, and communicate how this meaning and experience is demonstrated through a continuity of thought through the changing artistic conventions of history. They will have the knowledge and skill to articulate orally or in writing the world of common meanings that unite humanity across time.