The Department of Humanities is built upon the vitality of its multidisciplinary structure, combining history, classics, philosophy and languages, including Chinese, French, Greek, Latin, Japanese and Spanish. We have a commitment to excellence in the pursuit of knowledge and excellence in student learning. We feed this commitment by recruiting faculty to complement the department’s strengths, encouraging excellence in teaching and course design, teaching specialized material at advanced levels and pursuing scholarship in our core disciplines. Study in the Humanities facilitates excellence in writing, critical thinking, understanding of past and current cultures and understanding ourselves. It provides the tools to think about and relate deeply to the human experience, past, present and future.