Major in Humanities
The Humanities Major integrates courses from across disciplines, allowing students to develop their intellectual, moral, civic, and creative capacities to the fullest.

First Year Student?
Whether you want to major in Humanities or you’re just curious, feel free to explore our first year offerings.

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Fall 2025 Core Seminars
The Humanities Program is delighted to announce three Modernities seminars and five Interpretations seminars for the Fall 2025 semester.
Other Opportunities
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Whitney Humanities Center
The Whitney Humanities Center nurtures the collective and independent labor of humanists from various fields and at all stages of their careers.
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Citizens Thinkers Writers
Citizens Thinkers Writers offers rising juniors and seniors from New Haven public schools a tuition-free opportunity to explore fundamental moral and political questions.
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Directed Studies
Directed Studies offers a select group of first-year students an intense interdisciplinary introduction to some of the seminal texts of Western and Near Eastern cultures.
Humanities Announcements
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Medicine and the Humanities: Certainty and Unknowing
Check out Matthew Morrison’s course on Medicine and the Humanities, to be offered in Fall 2025! This course fulfills a HUMS Science requirement.
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Fall 2025 Core Seminars
The Humanities Program is delighted to announce three Modernities seminars and five Interpretations seminars for the Fall 2025 semester.
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Why Humanities?
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Jason Weinberger ’96, MusM ’97
I owe my involvement in the Humanities major to a fellow student who pushed me to look into it—probably the best advice I’ve ever received.