All students are admitted under Plan B.  Those students who are interested in pursuing Plan A, the thesis option, should seek approval from the director and the associate dean for graduate studies by way of a petition.  Both plans include 33 semester hours of study, at least 18 of which must be at the 500-level, and a comprehensive review of the student’s course work.  The specific courses to be taken are determined by the student’s study plan (see below) and by any prerequisites required for individual courses.  Students may take six hours outside of, but related to, the specific study plan.  Courses taken from other departments–Communications, Political Science, and Sociology–must be clearly humanistic in content and approach and can be taken only with the permission of the program director.

Plan A: 33 semester hours, including:

• HM 501  The Classical Ethos:  Medieval Era to 1500
• HM 502  The Humanities and Modernity
• HM 599  Master’s Thesis
  

21 hours of approved electives from at least three of the following disciplines: Art History, Classics, English, History, Modern Languages and Cultures, and Philosophy.

Plan B: 33 semester hours, including:

• HM 501  The Classical Ethos:  Medieval Era to 1500
• HM 502  The Humanities and Modernity
• HM 598  The Integration of the Humanities (with final research essay)

24 hours of approved electives from at least three of the following disciplines: Art History, Classics, English, History, Modern Languages and Cultures, and Philosophy.