Humanities students develop skills that transfer to any number of career paths. Below are five key skills that appear in every humanities student’s portfolio:
Communication
The humanities teach you how to approach concepts and issues creatively while harnessing your power to write and speak with clarity.
Interpersonal relations
Delivering the core import of the humanities is tough to replicate online, which means as a humanities student you will become adept at engaging and inspiring people in person while gaining a greater appreciation for diverse backgrounds.
Adaptability
Many humanities majors minor in a tech-related field, a strategy that offers a strong edge in the job market and the ability to excel in a variety of workplace settings.
Teamwork
Collaboration is a crucial element across every field of endeavor, from law to business to health care to high technology. As a humanities student, you will not only investigate how people working as a team have shaped human history, but you'll also discover your own capacity to contribute in a team-based environment.
Critical thinking
Seeing the big picture, formulating breakthrough ideas, solving difficult problems and identifying the smartest way forward are the bread and butter of humanities students. All are more important to modern employers than knowing how to carry out a specific technical task.
The Humanities department at Inver Hills offers interdisciplinary approaches to studying cultures and periods around the world and throughout history. Course topics cover art, literature, music, history, language, philosophy and religion from different perspectives. Specific topics address the Holocaust, study Hispanic cultures and explore the ancient world. You can apply your coursework toward transfer to a four-year college or university to pursue a bachelor’s degree in a humanities discipline.
What are the humanities?
"The term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life."
—National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, 1965, as amended