This graduate program is a research-intensive course of study in
which students examine cultural distinctiveness and learn how
different humanities disciplines have approached similar questions
and methodologies for explaining what makes cultures and cultural
productions unique.
We share analytical and critical research methods that engage questions of identity,
power, culture and representation. Our faculty members and students study the human
condition by exploring social processes at many spatial and temporal scales, as well as the
people who participate in them, their literary and artistic production, and their articula-
tion of ideas about meaning and value.
Students in the program either define their study around a fully interdisciplinary
approach, or focus primarily on a particular discipline informed by interdisciplinary
connections.
*Program pending the approval of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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UC Merced’s interdisciplinary
approach to the humanities allows emerging
scholars to consider a subject like performance
as literary, historical, cultural and artistic
artifact.
