Humanities at IIT: Where Can They Take You?
If you want to use both sides of your brain—integrating a creative, human-centered approach with an understanding of science and technology—the Lewis Department of Humanities program at IIT is for you.
Humanities at IIT explore the human experience in an interdisciplinary context. You will use analytical, critical, and empirical approaches to study the nature, history, and communication processes of many disciplines, including the sciences and technology.
Courses emphasize communication skills, ethics, and global and historical perspectives in small classes that provide a rich and personal learning experience.
Three majors are available:
Humanities
Professional and Technical Communication
Journalism of Science, Business, and Technology
You may specialize in art and architectural history, communication, culture and language, history, linguistics, literature, or philosophy. The Lewis Department of Humanities also offers an honors law program, a special curriculum that allows you to obtain an undergraduate degree at IIT and subsequently study law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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Announcements
- Friday, Feb. 17, 2 p.m., SH 218
- Humanities Department Colloquium Series: Aristotle on the Purpose of Revenge, Krisanna Scheiter (IIT Sawyier Fellow)
- Monday, Feb. 27, 12:30 p.m., SH 218
- Work-in-Progress Seminar Series: Matt Shapiro (IIT Social Sciences) & Karl Stolley (IIT Humanities)
- Friday, Apr. 13, 2:30 p.m., LS 111
- Spring 2012 Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology and Society: Methodological Misfits: Struggling with Observation and Mathematics in Medieval Islamic Science, Jon McGinnis (Department of Philosophy, University of St. Louis–Missouri)
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