Overview

Designed to reflect contemporary trends in humanistic scholarship, Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University teaches students how to compare, analyze, and integrate materials from different cultures, media, and/or historical periods; these are vital skills for the 21st century world that conventional undergraduate disciplinary boundaries often exclude.

These include the various ways in which, for example, digital technology has changed our relations to knowledge; the categories “Asia” and the “West” have been constructed and represented; how translation works in a globalized world; how science and the humanities interact; and the historical and cultural shifts in the way knowledge has been classified.

Key facts:

Our courses, taught by faculty from Comparative Humanities and from other humanities departments, are designed to help students develop a set of intellectual tools that can be applied in any professional or academic context. Classes are limited in size so that students may share through discussion their reactions to the works studied, relate them to their own lives, and attempt to judge their relevance to the contemporary “globalized” world. Inasmuch as language and culture are central to this interdisciplinary project, students who declare a major in the comparative humanities are required to satisfy a language requirement.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

The Humanities Now!
Myth, Reason, Faith
Making the Modern World
Modernism and Crisis
Enlightenments
Modernism and Crisis

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-10 00:00:00

Language

English

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100

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Lewisburg, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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100

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General requirements

Submit your personal essays electronically through the application website you choose.

Pay the nonrefundable $40 application fee electronically when you apply or request a fee waiver through the application website.

Official secondary school transcript in certified English translations, if applicable.

Mid-year Report and/or copy of your updated transcript, if applicable.

Common Application teacher evaluation form in English.

Early Decision Agreement form, including all required signatures (for early decision applicants only).

Copy of biographical photo page of passport.

All applicants to all of Bucknell's degree programs are required to have completed a minimum of two years of a foreign language (in the same language) in secondary school.

All applicants to all of Bucknell's degree programs are required to have completed a minimum of two-and-a-half years of college-preparatory mathematics.

Tuition Fees

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69976 USD / year

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69976 USD / year

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69976 USD / year

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Living costs

Lewisburg

United States

1000 - 1500 USD / month

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