Program in Interdisciplinary

Humanities

College of Arts and Sciences

Web Page: http://iph.fsu.edu/

Program Director: John Kelsay; Graduate Adviser: Shannon Tucker; Graduate Teaching Supervisor: Kathryn Cashin; Undergraduate Adviser: Kathryn Stoddard

Effective as of December 2009, the Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities is suspending admission into the American and Florida Studies major for all new students.

The Master of Arts (MA) program provides a graduate liberal studies degree program in the Humanities and the Arts. The doctoral program, leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Humanities, is designed to offer qualified students a broad program combining offerings from the participating departments of Anthropology, Art History, Classics, Communication, Dance, English, History, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Religion, and the School of Theatre. These programs provide an enlarged perspective assisting in an understanding of the significance of the specialized disciplines in the humanities area.

All graduate students are required to make an appointment with the program director to approve coursework for the following term.

Please refer to the department Web site at http://dih.fsu.edu for additional information pertaining to graduate programs in Humanities.

Requirements for the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities

Please review all college-wide requirements summarized in the “College of Arts and Sciences” chapter in this Graduate Bulletin.

At the Master’s level, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program offers a thirty-three semester hour non-thesis program with the following requirements.

Admission

The following criteria must be met to be admitted to the master’s program: 1) an undergraduate major in one of the humanities area departments; 2) a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score of 1000 and a minimum grade point average of 3.0 or higher in all work attempted as an upper-division student working for a baccalaureate degree; and 3) three letters of recommendation.

Note: Effective August 2011, the GRE Revised General Test replaced the GRE General Test. To learn more about this new test, go to http://www.ets.org/gre.

Requirements

1) Nine semester hours in HUM 5227, 5245, and 5253; 2) twelve semester hours of courses focusing on a specific cultural period or theme; and 3) twelve semester hours of HUM 6939r or other appropriate courses as listed below. At least one of these seminars or courses must focus on literary analysis, criticism, history or appreciation (LIT); at least one must focus on analogous aspects of art history (ARH); and at least one must focus on analogous aspects of music (MUS). When appropriate HUM 6939r seminars are not offered, one of the following courses may be selected:

Literature

ENG 5049r Studies in Critical Theory

ENG 5138r Studies in Film

LIT 5017r Studies in Fiction

LIT 5038r Studies in Poetry

LIT 5047r Studies in Drama

Art History

Any graduate course in art history that is open to non-majors.

Music

MUH 5380 Music in the Humanities (or any graduate level music course that is open to non-majors)

Other Requirements

In addition, certification of competency in reading a foreign or classical language is required. The master’s degree requirements are fulfilled through regular coursework. On an extremely rare occasion, relating to emergency circumstances, the director of the program may approve a directed individual study (DIS) in lieu of regular coursework.

Requirements for the Doctoral Program in Humanities

Please review all college-wide requirements summarized in the “College of Arts and Sciences” chapter in this Graduate Bulletin.

Admission

Typically, incoming doctoral students have a Master’s degree in one of the participating humanities area departments before admission to the doctoral program. Students with MA degrees in Interdisciplinary Humanities or Fine Arts may be admitted to the doctoral program by permission of the Chair with the understanding that they will complete, in one departmental area acceptable to the Humanities Program, the equivalent number of courses required for an MA degree in that department. Students with non-humanities oriented MA degrees are required to complete an MA degree in Humanities or in one of the participating humanities area departments before being admitted to the doctoral program. Three letters of recommendation are required by the Humanities Program as part of the application process. Students are admitted to the program on the recommendation of the Admissions Committee of the Program in the Humanities and the Chair of the department of the student’s concentration. A minimum cumulative score of 1000 or higher is required on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) and a minimum grade point average of 3.0 or higher on all work previously attempted.

Note: Effective August 2011, the GRE Revised General Test replaced the GRE General Test. To learn more about this new test, go to http://www.ets.org/gre.

Requirements

The PhD comprises a total of forty-eight credit hours of study. In consultation with the Chair, doctoral students choose one of two sequences at the required 5000 level. Most students take a chronologically oriented sequence that is fulfilled by completing the HUM 5227, 5245, and 5253 sequence. Students who have already completed work that is equivalent to this sequence take one that aims at a topical and methodological approach toward intellectual history, comparative literature, and the fine arts and may be fulfilled by completing (with the approval of the Chair) a sequence of nine semester hours of courses such as the following: ARH 5795, HIS 5346, MUH 5380, or PHI 6808r and other related courses.

Doctoral students are also required to select a total of three seminars designated HUM 6939r offered by the Humanities Program. With permission from the Chair, a student may be permitted to substitute one or more seminars in their departmental area. HIS 5346 or LIT 5066r may be substituted for one of the seminar requirements. At least one of these seminars or courses must focus on literary analysis, criticism, history, or appreciation (LIT); at least one must focus on analogous aspects of art history (ARH); and at least one must focus on analogous aspects of music (MUS). When appropriate HUM 6939r seminars are not offered one of the following courses may be selected:

Literature

ENG 5049r Studies in Critical Theory

ENG 5138r Studies in Film

LIT 5017r Studies in Fiction

LIT 5038r Studies in Poetry

LIT 5047r Studies in Drama

Art History

Any graduate course in art history that is open to non-majors.

Music

MUH 5380 Music in the Humanities (or any graduate level music course that is open to non-majors)

Other Requirements

In addition to the required Humanities courses, a student will take approximately one-half of his or her coursework in the department of concentration (including the work taken at the Master’s level) and the remainder in a carefully selected cluster of courses offered by participating departments in a major chronological period and a cultural theme, or in a major and minor chronological period. The major chronological period requires eighteen semester hours of work, and the minor period or theme requires twelve semester hours of work.

After finishing thirty semester hours of graduate work or being awarded the Master’s degree, the doctoral student must be continuously enrolled at Florida State University, Tallahassee campus, for a minimum of twenty-four graduate semester hours in any period of twelve consecutive months. The residency requirement can be completed with either coursework or dissertation hours.

In most instances, students should assume that two years of full-time residence beyond the Master’s degree is required to fulfill course requirements. Upon completion of all coursework, written examinations, and oral examinations, an additional twenty-four semester hours of dissertation hours are required. A reading knowledge of two modern or classical languages or, at the discretion of the student’s supervisory committee, a high level of competence in one modern or classical language is required.

Definition of Prefixes

HUM—Humanities

Graduate Courses

HUM 5227. The Humanistic Tradition: Greek and Roman (3). Studies in the thought, values, and arts of Greek and Roman culture.

HUM 5245. The Humanistic Tradition: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque (3). Studies in the thought, values, and arts of Western culture from the early Christian era through the Renaissance and baroque periods.

HUM 5253. The Humanistic Tradition: The Modern World (3). Studies in the thought, values, and arts of modern Western culture.

HUM 5909r. Directed Individual Study (3). (S/U grade only.) May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

HUM 5915r. Supervised Research (1–5). (S/U grade only.) A maximum of three semester hours may be applied to a master’s degree. May be repeated to a maximum of five semester hours.

HUM 5938r. Interdisciplinary Topics (3). This course provides students from any discipline with an integrated interdisciplinary learning experience. The course is taught by instructors from at least two different departments and/or colleges. Topics vary. May be repeated to a maximum of eighteen semester hours.

HUM 5940r. Supervised Teaching (0–5). (S/U grade only.) A maximum of three semester hours may be applied to a master’s degree. May be repeated to a maximum of five semester hours.

HUM 6904r. Readings for Examination (1–12). (S/U grade only.) Designated for graduate students who have completed, or have virtually completed, all of their required coursework and are preparing for their master’s comprehensive examinations or their preliminary doctoral examinations. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours.

HUM 6939r. Seminar Topics (3). May be repeated to a maximum of fifteen semester hours.

HUM 6980r. Dissertation (1–12). (S/U grade only.)

HUM 8964r. Preliminary Doctoral Examination (0). (P/F grade only.)

HUM 8966r. Master’s Comprehensive Examination (0). (P/F grade only.)

HUM 8985r. Dissertation Defense (0). (P/F grade only.)

INDUSTRIAL/APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY:

see Psychology