humanities courses
Non-science college classes
Humanities courses are academic classes focused on human culture, thought, and expression—literature, philosophy, history, art, languages, and religion.
They contrast with sciences and technical fields, emphasizing interpretation, critical thinking, and cultural understanding over empirical methods: She took humanities courses to balance her engineering major.
Often shortened to humanities.
- liberal artsNon-vocational higher education
- novelsExtended prose fiction
- gender studiesScholarly analysis of social identities
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
- paintingPigment on canvas
archaeology · epistemology · poetry · close reading · existentialism · rhetoric · critical thinking · media studies · sculpture · historiography · aesthetics · Western canon · phenomenology · religious studies · translation · oral history · linguistics · foreign language
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Structured technical education programs
hard sciences · applied sciences · natural sciences · mathematics
humanities coursesvocational training
Job-skill education
technical training · job training · hands-on training · professional courses · career training
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