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Honors in Humanities

Students whose grade point average in the humanities major before the beginning of their final year at UTSA is 3.25 or above, and whose overall grade point average is 3.0, may earn Honors in Humanities. In order to do so, a student must complete a substantial paper approved by the Department Scholarship and Honors Committee and maintain a 3.25 grade point average in the major. The grade point average requirements apply to all transfer work and courses taken at UTSA.

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Humanities

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities is an interdisciplinary degree program consisting of courses drawn from a number of academic disciplines.

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree is 120, including the hours of the Core Curriculum requirements. Thirty-nine of the total semester credit hours required for the degree must be at the upper-division level.

All candidates seeking this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements and the degree requirements, which are listed below.

Core Curriculum requirements: Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as other students. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these courses are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students will need to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree. For a complete listing of courses that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements in this catalog.

Core Curriculum Requirements	Courses that Satisfy Core Curriculum and Degree Requirements
Rhetoric (6 semester credit hours)	All students must take the following six hours to meet this core requirement: WRC 1013 Freshman Composition I WRC 1023 Freshman Composition II
Domain I: Mathematics and Science	*Mathematics* (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *Science* (6 semester credit hours) Three hours from Level One and three hours from Level Two will satisfy this core requirement.
Domain II: Society and Culture	United States History and Diversity (6 semester credit hours) Any six hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *Political Studies* (6 semester credit hours) POL 1013 plus 3 additional hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *Social and Behavioral Sciences* (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *Economics* (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Domain III: Literature and the Arts	*Literature* (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *The Arts* (3 Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Domain IV: World Society and Issues	(3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. Note: If a language is used to satisfy this three-hour requirement, students will need to take an additional three hours in the same language for the degree requirement.

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Degree Requirements

A. 42 semester credit hours:

1. 12 required semester credit hours:

CLA 2013 Introduction to Ancient Greece
CLA 2023 Introduction to Ancient Rome
HUM 3013 History of Ideas
HUM 4973 Seminar for Humanities Majors

2. 9 semester credit hours of historical-period courses selected from the following:

HUM 3023 The Medieval World
HUM 3033 The Renaissance Idea of Humanity
HUM 3043 Classicism and Enlightenment
HUM 3053 The Romantic Age
HUM 3063 The Modern World

3. 21 semester credit hours that should form an interdisciplinary course of study developed in conjunction with the undergraduate advisor and designed to aid the student's integration of his or her program in terms of central themes, focal problems, or fields of historical interest; at least 12 hours must be at the upper-division level. The student must take at least 3 semester credit hours in each of the following five areas: Classical studies (CLA), philosophy (PHI), humanities (HUM), art history and criticism (AHC), and literature in one of the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Russian (this includes literature courses in translation, and culture and civilization courses).

The remaining 6 semester credit hours may be selected from these five areas or, with the approval of the undergraduate advisor, from other relevant areas such as history, music history, or the social sciences.

B. 6 semester credit hours in a single language other than English

C. 30 semester credit hours of electives

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