Disciplines & Programs
The Art History program offers the student practical, critical and historical studies in architecture, sculpture, painting, the decorative arts, printmaking, and photography.
The study of communication involves exploration of the role of media institutions, technologies, and texts and their impacts on everyday life. Communication phenomena can be analyzed at a variety of levels, from the intrapersonal to the societal and global levels, using a number of methodologies.
(Not a field of concentration.) A minor or area of focus consists of 12 hours of upper division credit in Comparative Literature.
All UM-D students are required to complete six hours of composition in order to graduate. Most students fulfill this requirement by taking COMP 105 and 106. Each entering student should make every effort to complete the compusition sequence during his or her first year on campus, since it is designed to acquaint students with expectations and strategies of university writing.
A concentration in English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn focuses on the dynamic intersection of language, literature, and society as well as the identities and communities shaped by this intersection. Concentrators in the English discipline have the opportunity to explore the relationships between reading and writing printed text by becoming familiar with the strategies that writers use to shape conceptions of truth.
The minor in Film Studies aims to educate students in the aesthetic, cultural and political dimensions of cinema. Differentiated from the entertainment value of films in contemporary society, the academic study of cinema illustrates the power of the visual image, and the definitive role that cinematic narrative plays in the formation of cultural values and norms.
The Humanities Concentration is an interdisciplinary program sponsored by the Humanities Department. Students design an individualized course of study combining several disciplines in the Humanities Department as well as History and other college-wide programs. The Concentration allows students to explore a variety of fields that cannot be covered within the confines of a single major.
Linguistics is not a concentration program, but students may earn a minor in linguistics and use lingustics as an area of focus for the Bachelor of General Studies degree completing 12 hours of upper-division credit in linguistics.
A minor or area of focus in Music History consists of 12 hours of upper-division credit in music history, music theory or applied music courses.
Philosophy teaches us how to think and write about these and other basic questions in a reasoned and critical fashion. Because philosophy deals with the fundamental issues that underlie all of our investigations into nature and ourselves, the study of philosophy serves students who are interested in the foundations of the sciences, arts, and social institutions.