Course variations

Course summary

In this program students must successfully complete 120 hours to graduate, with 42 hours from the University’s core curriculum and 45 in the major. Twenty-seven hours of upper-level electives allow students to round out their degree plan by choosing the remaining elective courses from arts and technology or emerging Media and Communication, or choosing to do more advanced study in the arts, history or literature. Students may be certified to teach history and/or social studies and/or English through the UT Dallas Teacher Development Center. Graduates with a BA in arts and humanities enter the workforce with a broad knowledge of art genres, history and literature. They also are properly equipped to follow their educational ambitions into postgraduate education in any of a variety of graduate and professional schools. Students who complete the major in arts and humanities are familiar with the relationships among the liberal disciplines which comprise literary and historical studies and the visual and performing arts.

Program modules

This program module includes Degree Requirements (120 hours); Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 hours; Communication (6 hours); 3 hours Communication (RHET 1302); 3 hours Communication Elective (HUMA 3300); Social and Behavioral Sciences (15 hours); 6 hours Government (GOVT 2301 and 2302); 6 hours American History ; 3 hours Social and Behavioral Science Elective; Humanities and Fine Arts (6 hours); 3 hours Fine Arts (ARTS 1301); 3 hours Humanities (HUMA 1301); Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning (6 hours); 3 hours College Math (MATH 1314 is recommended); 3 hours Quantitative Mathematics (STAT 1342); Science (9 hours including at least one course with a substantial laboratory component); Major Requirements, Lower Division: 9 hours; LIT 2341 Literary Analysis; PHIL 1301 Introduction to Philosophy or equivalent; One of the following: AHST 2331 Understanding Art; DANC 1310 Understanding Dance; DRAM 1310 Understanding Theater; FILM 2332 Understanding Film; MUSI 1306 Understanding Music; Major Requirements, Upper Division: 39 hours; Major Core Courses (9 hours); AP 3300 Elements of Art and Performance; HIST 3301 Historical Inquiry; HUMA 3300 Reading and Writing Texts ; LIT 3300 Western Literary Tradition; Major Distribution and Elective Courses (27 hours); Art and Performance (9 hours); One upper-division course from Historical Context courses; Two upper-division courses from Studio and Ensemble courses; Historical Studies (9 hours); One upper-division course from each of the following groups: European Historical Studies; Asian, African, and Latin American Historical Studies; Studies in Philosophy and Intellectual History Literary Studies (9 hours); One upper-division course from each of the following groups: Literary genres; Literature before 1850; LIT elective: Arts and Humanities Elective (3 hours); Any upper-division course from the School of Arts and Humanities; Elective Requirements: 30 hours; Advanced Electives (6 hours); Free Electives (24 hours).

Entry requirement for international students

Applicants must have completed a full, college-track high school curriculum, including language arts (4 units), mathematics (3.5 units), science (3 units of laboratory science, excluding physical science), social sciences (3 units), foreign language (2 units in a single foreign language), and fine arts (.5 unit in music, art, or drama).. International Students must have minimum TOEFL score of 550 on paper based, 213 on computer based or 80 on the internet based test, 6.5 on IELTS or 67 on PTE academic.

Qualification

Bachelor degree

Awarding body

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

Department name

School of Arts and Humanities