WHY HUMANITIES?
The UCI School of Humanities is where future leaders, communicators, scholars, CEOs, storytellers, creatives, directors, writers, and entrepreneurs come to get their start.
Humanities courses will challenge your thinking and prepare you for some of the world’s most coveted professional positions. But why not also have some fun while learning about what you love? Join us to explore topics ranging from ancient myths and medieval monsters to the history of medicine, the thoughts of existentialist philosophers, the impact of social media, the international cultures of food, and the global influence of hip-hop.
Our students discover in the School of Humanities a wide world of new experiences, in language and culture courses including Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish and more.
Studying the humanities will enrich your understanding of the human world by introducing you to, and sparking in you, ideas that matter. It will empower your creativity and your ability to innovate. And it will equip you with priceless tools to shape your own unique future.
NEWS
Learn about the humanities faculty, students, alumni and community members who are making an impact
2019 Anteater's gift guide
Literature by UCI Humanities faculty and alumni spotlighted
Taking art to unexpected places
UCI art history alumna finds career success through internships
Axis of hope
UCI professor's new book documents women's rights activists and activism in Iran and the diaspora
IMPORTANT FACTS
Faculty
180+
Majors
20+
Languages
14
Minors
37
OUR EVENTS
Whether you're interested in author talks, master classes from renowned writers, or skill-sharing workshops,
there's always something new and exciting happening at the School of Humanities!!
Featured Event
Saved: Objects of the Dead is a collaborative project by Jody Servon, artist, and Lorene Delany-Ullman, poet. The photographs and prose poems in this exhibit raise questions about the nature and function of remembrance, the consumer status of the remembered items, and the way that what may seem to be the "stuff" of our lives becomes imbued with symbolic density and even new life.
Upcoming Events
December 19, 2019
Shab-e Yalda (Winter Solstice) Celebration
January 14, 2020
"Empire's Tracks", a Native American History talk by Manu Karaka
January 15, 2020
"Suffer Well" Mellon Sawyer Seminar - Scholars in Illness: Lana Lin, Patrick Anderson, Mel Chen, Lochlann Jain
January 16, 2020
Sonic Gardens, Black Women's Subjectivity, and the Limits of Genre: Minnie Riperton's Come to My Garden (1970)
January 16, 2020
"Suffer Well" Mellon Sawyer Seminar - Film Screening: The Cancer Journals Revisited
January 16, 2020
La Belle et La Bete - A Musical Performance by Sussan Deyhim
Saved: Objects of the Dead