Core Humanities

Students can choose to take a Core Humanities course from one of the many disciplines within the humanities. These courses are specifically designed for Spartan Studies to help students expand their ability to understand and make meaning from the variety of human experiences around the world. These courses are not tied to any specific major. Students are encouraged and expected to utilize the skills learned in these courses to view and solve problems in other courses, their personal lives, and after graduation using perspectives based on reason and a common humanity. Because these courses incorporate the high impact practice of writing, they are taken in conjunction with or after AWR 201 Writing and Research: The Local and Global. This requirement must be met at The University of Tampa and cannot be transferred in.

Core Humanities Course Description

Humanities courses use written texts, images, or other cultural expressions as evidence or inspiration and as a means to make meaning out of the complexity of the human experience. All students will take a course that uses reading and writing as a mode of inquiry to engage the humanistic disciplines. Humanities courses will examine cultural expressions, ideas, or experiences that focus predominantly on selected parts of the world outside of the United States. (4 credits)

Approved Courses

UTART 200 Worlds of Art

UTCOM 200 Global Media Cultures

UTDAN 200 Dance in World Cultures

UTFMX 200 The World Image

UTJOU 280 Crafting Stories for Social Impact: Climate Crisis in Focus

UTLIT 200 Global Medical Stories

UTLIT 201 Global Cities and Migrant Narratives

UTLIT 202 Adaptations across the Globe

UTLIT 203 Cultural Responses to Environment Crisis

UTLIT 204 Banned Books

UTMUS 200 United We Stand: Music, Protest, and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

UTPHL 200 Moral Debates: Local and Global

UTPHL 201 What's Real, How Do We Know and Why Should I Care

UTPHL 202 Zen, Yoga, and The Way: Global Philosophy and Local Practice

UTPHL 203 Philosophy and Hip Hop

UTSPT 200 Myths and Realities of the New World Encounter

UTWGS 200 LGBTQ+ Voices