This major helps students appreciate, understand, and interpret relationships among the arts, ideas, media, and values that have shaped Western and world cultures. Students are expected to be active learners who can synthesize, interpret, and communicate knowledge and experience through writing, speaking, and creative expression in a variety of media. The School of Humanities helps students meet these goals by offering a range of interdisciplinary and discipline-based courses in the arts, art history, communication studies, English, history, literature, music, philosophy, religious studies, theatre, and writing.

The Interdisciplinary Humanities major at Penn State Harrisburg provides the opportunity for a student interested in a broad-based liberal arts education to create an academic program to fit individual interests, abilities, and career or education plans. The program encourages a strong student/faculty partnership in planning a student’s curriculum. Further, the program encourages internships, focused concentration of electives, and involvement in student organizations as invaluable assets to a student’s educational planning. With these tools and an understanding of their career goals, graduates of the Interdisciplinary Humanities program can explore diverse opportunities in today’s career world. Career paths may include teaching, corporate communications, media, arts management, advertising, marketing and sales, social service agencies, law, government, business, and nonprofit agencies.