The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas offers students a unique program of interdisciplinary proportions. Whereas a bachelor’s degree in the humanities can be located at any variety of universities, public and private, both inside and outside Texas, UTD’s program offers significant advantages to a student who has diverse interests and multiple talents and career paths to explore in conjunction with a higher education.

Specifically, the School of Arts and Humanities offers six possible degree tracks for majors. Students may emphasize Literary Studies, Historical Studies (which includes philosophy and intellectual history), Art & Performance (which ranges in specific programs from specializations in music and theater to painting and photography to communications and creative writing, with many others in between), Arts & Technology (which will emphasize electronic and digitalized game development and applications of higher technical computer-enhanced arts to the more traditional fine arts forms) or a more generalized Arts & Humanities degree plan that allows students to take courses in the first three programs for a more balanced educational experience. The newest degree track is the Emerging Media and Communication (EMAC) program which is designed to educate “communicators of the twenty-first century” who can contribute to evolving fields such as web and mobile communications and design, Internet content development, and online journalism and advertising.

The School of Arts and Humanities also offers an Honors Program giving studens an opportunity for advanced creative and scholarly work and recognition.

The faculty of the School of Arts and Humanities is genuinely committed to the interdisciplinary philosophy underlying the school’s scholastic structure. Widely diverse in backgrounds and interests, professors in the school frequently employ approaches that mesh the several disciplines of the school as classes explore specific academic areas from a broad scholarly perspective. Students obtaining a degree from the School of Arts and Humanities are not only well prepared to enter the professional world with a well-rounded and broad-based education, they also are properly equipped to follow their educational ambitions into post-graduate education in any of a variety of graduate and professional schools. UTD’s School of Arts and Humanities graduates have been recognized by the business and industrial community as well as by other universities as being among the top choices for candidacy for major positions and programs.