Arts & Humanities | Art & Performance | Arts & Technology | Historical Studies | Literary Studies

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 five 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. Numerous major track programs also have been refined in such a way that students emphasizing one of them for a major course of study can add a minor emphasis in one or more of the others. Additionally, an unusually high number of free electives, permits all majors to explore freely in areas of interest and ability that would not ordinarily be a part of degree programs at other institutions. The absence of a foreign language requirement for the B.A. degree in the School of Arts and Humanities also widens student opportunities for enhancing their higher education experience through a multiplicity of diverse academic and artistic endeavors.

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.