Description

The Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Humanities is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on contemporary Western and non-Western concerns. By encouraging students to develop unique, cross-disciplinary perspectives on how contemporary trends, such as advancing technology and globalization, affect who we are and what we are becoming, the Contemporary Humanities graduate certificate has the potential to affect scholarly inquiry in both humanistic and non-humanistic fields and to serve central Florida, a site of rapid technological and demographic change.

Faculty in the Department of Philosophy teach the core and selected elective courses. Other courses, focusing on some particular area of inquiry in Art, Anthropology, Communication, English, English Education, History, Liberal Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Spanish, Theatre, Women's Studies, are taught by faculty in those departments and disciplines.

Admission

Admission is open to those with a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution. An application to the graduate certificate program and official transcripts must be submitted. Applicants must apply online. Relevant experiences with the humanities through course work at the undergraduate or graduate level or through professional experience working with cultural documents, analyses or performances will be evaluated by the graduate program director together with the certificate committee comprised of faculty from the participating departments. Additionally, it is normally expected that applicants will have a grade point average of 3.0. However, the committee may grant exceptions where applications provide other indicators of preparedness.

Meeting minimum UCF admission criteria does not guarantee program admission. Final admission is based on evaluation of the applicant's abilities, past performance and the applicant's potential for completing the certificate.

Application Due Dates

U.S. Applicants

Program(s)	Fall Priority	Fall	Spring	Summer
Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Humanities		Jun 30	Nov 15	Mar 30

 

Requirements

Requirements—15 Credit Hours Minimum

Required Courses—6 Credit Hours

• HUM 5803 Theories and Methods of the Humanities (3 credit hours)
• HUM 5802 Applied Contemporary Humanities (3 credit hours)

Elective Courses—9 Credit Hours

Students may choose to specialize in some specific academic discipline or tailor their own areas of concentration. Choose elective courses from the following list.

• AMH 5296 Colloquium in 20th Century U.S. (3 credit hours)
• AMH 5391 Colloquium in U.S. Cultural History (3 credit hours)
• ANG 6324 Contemporary Maya (3 credit hours)
• ASH 5408 Colloquium in Modern China (3 credit hours)
• COM 6303 Communication Research I (3 credit hours)
• COM 6468 Communication and Conflict (3 credit hours)
• CPO 5334 Contemporary Politics of the Mayan Region (3 credit hours)
• CPO 6091 Seminar in Comparative Politics (3 credit hours)
• ENC 5256 Gendered Rhetoric (3 credit hours)
• ENG 5018 Literary Criticism (3 credit hours)
• ENC 5425 Hypertext Theory and Design (3 credit hours)
• ENC 5427 Hypertext (3 credit hours)
• ENC 5705 Theory and Practice in Composition (3 credit hours)
• ENC 6261 Technical Writing, Theory and Practice (3 credit hours)
• ENC 5337 Modern Rhetorical Theory (3 credit hours)
• EUH 5285 Colloquium in Europe since World War II (3 credit hours)
• LAE 5415 Childrens Literature in Elementary Education (3 credit hours)
• LAE 5465 Literature for Adolescents (3 credit hours)
• PHI 5627 Theoretical and Applied Ethics (3 credit hours)
• PHI 5665 Knowledge, Responsibility, and Society (3 credit hours)
• PHM 5035 Environmental Philosophy (3 credit hours)
• PUP 6324 Women and Public Policy (3 credit hours)
• SPN 5505 Spanish Peninsular Culture and Civilization* (3 credit hours)
• SPN 5506 Spanish American Culture and Civilization* (3 credit hours)
• SPW 6485 Contemporary Peninsular Literature* (3 credit hours)
• SPW 6306 Spanish American Drama I* (3 credit hours)
• SPW 6356 Spanish American Poetry* (3 credit hours)
• SPW 6217 Spanish-American Prose I* (3 credit hours)
• SPW 6218 Spanish American Prose II* (3 credit hours)
• SPW 6725 The Generation of 1898* (3 credit hours)
• SPN 5502 Hispanic Culture of the United States (3 credit hours)
• THE 5307 Contemporary Theatre Practice (3 credit hours)
• WST 5347 Research Seminar in Gender Studies (3 credit hours)

All elective courses have been approved for inclusion by the relevant departments. However, students without relevant prerequisites will need to obtain consent of the instructor in order to enroll.

* Spanish courses are taught in Spanish. Students will need to pass a Spanish proficiency exam in order to enroll.

Contact Info

Bruce Janz, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Phone Number: 407-823-5408
janzb@mail.ucf.edu