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A grounding in the humanities prepares you to face today’s challenges–challenges whose solutions depend on joining technical and scientific knowledge with a deep understanding of the world’s political, cultural and economic complexities. Employers in our region are hungry for students with the skills the humanities foster: collaboration, communication, leadership, and multiculturalism, among others.

The minor or integrative studies concentration in the humanities at the University of Michigan-Dearborn consists of 12 credits of upper-level courses you choose in the humanities (HUM). The courses address a huge range of subjects such as Detroit history and culture, Chinese art, female musicians from the Middle Ages to today, the Bible and western tradition, national cinemas, Shakespeare on film, Black cinema, West African popular music, Nazi Germany, Japanese art, writing media scripts, and ethnographic film, along with many others. A humanities/history internship also is available.