- Home
- Programmes
- Humanities
- Eckerd College
11 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university
Religious Studies
The Religious Studies program of Eckerd College provides an excellent background for a career as well as an appropriate way of becoming a well-informed person. Teachers, social workers, counselors, writers, youth workers, chaplains, Christian educators, directors of camps and conferences, ministers, and church musicians often begin their preparation with a major in religious study.
Creative Writing
In the Creative Writing program of Eckerd College, students inaugurate a life-long apprenticeship in the literary arts. Creative Writing majors study classic and contemporary literature and learn the fundamentals of narrative, poetic, and dramatic craft.
History
The History program of Eckerd College provides perspective for understanding contemporary society and its problems; however, it can also offer a sense of one’s unique heritage as well as a comparative view of life in other cultures and other times.
Humanities
The Humanities program of Eckerd College is an interdisciplinary major coordinated by the Letters Collegium. Working together, the student and Mentor design a ten course program using the methodology of a core Letters discipline, supplemented with courses from complementary disciplines and integrative humanities courses.
Interdisciplinary Arts
The Interdisciplinary Arts program of Eckerd College builds on strengths within the Creative Arts Collegium and is designed for students with varied interests and skills who would like to build bridges linking the arts.
Comparative Literature
The Comparative Literature program of Eckerd College offers students the opportunity to combine study of literature in English with literature in one or more foreign languages.
Literature
The Literature program of Eckerd College offers a broad survey of great writing from English, American, and world contexts, combined with the opportunity to study selected genres, periods, and authors in depth.
English
The English program of Eckerd College is an interdisciplinary major coordinated by the Letters Collegium. Working together, the student and Mentor design a ten course program using the methodology of a core Letters discipline, supplemented with courses from complementary disciplines and integrative humanities courses.
Philosophy
The Philosophy program of Eckerd College equips students not only to understand and appreciate the answers offered historically to such questions, but to enable them to develop their own ideas and thoughts about them in the context of reasoned argument.
French
The French program of Eckerd College offers students the opportunity to become fluent in the language while studying the principal francophone cultures of the world.
Ancient Studies
The Ancient Studies program of Eckerd College is an interdisciplinary major designed for students interested in the languages, arts, religions, histories, and material cultures of peoples living in the ancient world.