Learn to make insightful connections across disciplines and perspectives with a minor in humanities interdisciplinary studies.
Why Minor in Humanities Interdisciplinary Studies?
A minor in humanities interdisciplinary studies gives you the opportunity to deepen your understanding and appreciation of how disciplines intersect and can work together to create new knowledge.
You'll learn to think critically and creatively, take on complex intellectual and practical challenges and cultivate habits of mind that will help you succeed in any career.
Why Study Humanities Interdisciplinary Studies at CSUN?
Choose Your Direction
You'll choose upper-division electives from a wide range of departments, including:
- Africana Studies
- Art
- Asian American Studies
- Chicana and Chicano Studies
- Cinema and Television Arts
- Communication Studies
- English
- Gender and Women’s Studies
- History
- Jewish Studies
- Linguistics
- Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
- Music
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
- Theatre
Design Your Project
For your chosen capstone project, you'll apply rigorous principles of interdisciplinary thinking. Projects may include a paper, an app, an artifact, a community project, an installation, a performance, a device or an event, among other choices.
What You'll Learn
A minor in humanities interdisciplinary studies enables you to merge different scholarly areas and fields.
As a result, you'll develop the ability to make insightful connections across disciplines and perspectives. You'll learn to draw conclusions by combining examples, facts, theories or methodologies from at least two disciplines to arrive at interdisciplinary understandings.
You'll begin with a suite of required courses, including:
- Forms and Ideas in Humanities
- Cultural Eras in Humanities
- Cultural Theories and Methodologies
You'll then choose an intellectual history, theory and methodologies course and courses from a broad selection of humanities departments.