2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

Humanities

Humanities

Humanities

This requirement aims to teach students to analyze information and perspectives, to identify relationships between ideas, hidden assumptions and potential bias, and to distinguish between known elements (facts) and suspected elements (hypotheses, opinions), and between correlations and causal relationships.  Further, it challenges students to understand the human condition, empathize with those suffering, recognize injustice, and detect God's creative presence in the world.

Students completing a bachelor of arts degree will need to complete three of the following courses.  One course will need to be a history course, the second will need to be a literature course, and the third will need to be a philosophy course.

Students completing a bachelor of science, bachelor of science in engineering, or bachelor of social work degree need to complete only one (history, literature, or philosophy) course.
 
Total Credit Hours:3-9
Education majors should take ENGL 350 Children's Literature to fulfill the humanities requirement.

History

Any Greenville University course with a prefix of HIST will meet the Humanities History requirement.
Transfer courses in History will fulfill the Humanities History requirement.

Literature

ENGL 201Introduction to Literary Study

3

ENGL 240Voices in American Literature

3

ENGL 243Global Literature

3

ENGL 244Voices in British Literature

3

ENGL 246Contemporary Cross-Cultural Literature

3

ENGL 350Children's Literature

3

Transfer courses such as Poetry, Mythology, or Short Stories will fulfill the Humanities Literature requirement.

Philosophy

PHIL 201Major Issues Philosophy

3

Philosophy courses such as Ethics and Logic will be accepted in transfer to fulfill the Humanities Philosophy requirement.
 
ARTE 211 Fine Arts does not fulfill the Humanities requirement.