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Students
in the Division of the Humanities investigate the varied achievements
of the human mind in language and literature, music, the visual
arts, and philosophy. These investigations can range from the methods
of the established humanistic disciplines to the newer alliances
of humanities and social sciences, from the history of a civilization
to the conceptual foundations of science, from the aesthetics of
a literary genre to the broader cultural occasions that bring the
visual arts into contact with linguistic theory or musicology into
contact with anthropology. The division regards a multiplicity of
questions and approaches as the hallmark of its intellectual life
and encourages its students to share in this diversity.
The
academic units of the division exist to guide and support the students'
investigations and are correspondingly varied. Degrees are granted
both by departments, which largely represent the established fields
of humanistic inquiry, and by committees, which offer special opportunities
for study not easily accommodated within departments. These programs
of study are described in detail in this section of the Announcements.
The University also provides additional settings for cross-disciplinary
work by students already registered in a department or committee.
Noteworthy among these settings are numerous Graduate Workshops,
established under the auspices of the Council on Advanced Study
in the Humanities and Social Sciences, which regularly bring together
faculty and advanced graduate students from diverse fields to discuss
their current work on topics of common interest. The Division of
the Humanities further collaborates with the Division of Social
Sciences in supporting "Interdisciplinary Opportunities,"
which comprise groups of faculty and students investigating such
areas as archeological studies and gender studies, and Area Studies
centers, devoted to distinct cultural, political, and geographical
systems such as Latin America and South Asia. The interdisciplinary
and area studies units are described more fully in another section
of these Announcements.
The
Franke Institute for the Humanities was established to provide further
support for humanistic inquiry at the University. It serves as a
gathering place and center of research for scholars, both from other
institutions and from the division's faculty and advanced students,
whose shared discussions fruitfully bring together diverse interests
and methods. Many of its occasions, including lectures and special
symposia, are open to the entire University community.
Students
must fulfill divisional degree requirements as well as the requirements
of their department or committee. They should become familiar with
the requirements listed below and should consult their departmental
advisers or committee chairs in planning their programs.
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