GH. Humanities Requirement Fall 2011 through Summer 2018
This page is for GE from 2011-2018. For information about the GE program beginning in Fall 2018, please see the GE homepage. See UH Hilo Catalog back issues for descriptions of older courses.
6 semester hours.
Students select one semester course in one area and a second semester course in a different area. These courses use the terminology of the visual, performing, or creative arts; or of the study of philosophy, language, communication, or religion; or of literary representations.
- These courses are certified as meeting the Humanities requirement effective Fall 2011 through Summer 2018.
- Please note effective dates: a course must have been certified when you took the course to count towards the requirement.
- Students using catalogs between 2011-2018 who wish to apply the Humanities requirement to courses not listed on this page must submit a "Request for Modification of Academic Requirement" form which can be found on the Office of the Registrar - Commonly Used Forms page.
Select two (in different areas):
- ART 101 Intro To Visual Arts (effective Fall 2011)
- ART 109 Intro To Drawing & Painting (certified from Fall 2011-Summer 2016)
- ART 175 Survey of World Art I (effective Fall 2014)
- ART 176 Survey of World Art II (effective Fall 2014)
- ART 270 Aspects of Western Art (certified from Fall 2011-Summer 2016)
- ART 280 Aspects Of Asian Art (effective Fall 2011)
- ART 380 Art Of China (effective Fall 2017)
- ART 381 Art Of Japan (effective Fall 2017)
- BIOL 392 Biology & Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- CHNS 101 Elementary Chinese I (effective Fall 2011)
- CHNS 102 Elementary Chinese II (effective Fall 2011)
- CHNS 107 Accelerated Elementary Chinese (effective Fall 2012)
- CHNS 200 Conversational CHNS Business (effective Fall 2015)
- CHNS 201 Intermediate Chinese I (effective Fall 2015)
- CHNS 202 Intermediate Chinese II (effective Fall 2015)
- CHNS 250 Chinese Folklore and Symbolism (effective Fall 2014)
- CHNS 260 Chns Hist Culture through Film (effective Fall 2014)
- CHNS 381 Chns Cult thru Arch & Garden (effective Fall 2014)
- COM 100 Human Comm in Diverse Society (effective Fall 2012)
- COM 270 Intro to Theories of Human Com (effective Fall 2011)
- DNCE 160 Ballet I (effective Fall 2014)
- DNCE 180 Jazz Dance I (effective Fall 2014)
- DNCE 190 Modern Dance I (effective Fall 2014)
- DNCE 260 Ballet II (effective Fall 2014)
- DNCE 280 Jazz Dance II (effective Fall 2014)
- DNCE 290 Modern Dance II (effective Fall 2014)
- DNCE 360 Ballet III (effective Fall 2014)
- DNCE 419 Dance In Education (effective Fall 2012)
- DNCE 460 Ballet IV (effective Fall 2014)
- DRAM 101 Introduction to Theatre (effective Fall 2011) Course formerly offered as DRAM 271 until Summer 2017
- DRAM 419 Drama in Education (effective Fall 2012)
- ENG 200A-F Intro to Literary Genres (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 200G Intro Graphic Novels & Comics (effective Fall 2016)
- ENG/WS 201 Global Cinema (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG/WS 202 Literature of Human Rights (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG/WS 204 Intr Race/Gender Film Studies (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 205 Hawaiʻi on Screen (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG/WS 206 Intro to Popular Culture (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 240 British Lit's Greatest Hits (effective Fall 2014)
- ENG 253 World Lit: Class-17th Century (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 254 World Lit: 17th Cent-Present (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG/WS 257 Multicultural Literature (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 275 Literature of the Earth (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 286A Intro to Fiction Writing (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 286B Intro to Poetry Writing (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 287 Introduction to Rhetoric (effective Fall 2016)
- ENG 289 The Rhetoric of Food (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 290 Literature and Medicine (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 323 The Literature of Hawaiʻi (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 345 Children & Literature (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 355 Women in Modern Lit & Film (effective Fall 2012)
- ENG/WS 423 Post-Colonial Literature (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 430 Pacific Islands Literature (effective Fall 2011)
- ENG 448 Graphic Novels and Comics (effective Fall 2016)
- ENG 462 (effective Fall 2012)
- FIL 101 Elementary Filipino I (effective Fall 2016)
- FIL 102 Elementary Filipino II (effective Fall 2014)
- FIL 200 Inter Conversational Filipino (effective Fall 2014)
- FIL 330 Filipino Films (effective Fall 2014)
- FIL 354 Filipino Culture (effective Fall 2014)
- FR 101 Elementary French I (effective Fall 2011)
- FR 102 Elementary French II (effective Fall 2011)
- HAW 101 Elementary Hawaiian I (effective Fall 2011)
- HAW 102 Elem Hawaiian II (effective Fall 2011)
- HAW 107 Intensive Elementary Hawaiian (effective Fall 2011)
- HAW 207 Intensive Intermediate Hawaiian (effective Fall 2011)
- HWST/MUS 175 Intro Music Of Polynesia (effective Fall 2013)
- HWST/MUS 176 Hist & Dev Of Hawn Music (effective Fall 2011)
- HWST 211 Hawaiian Ethnobotany (effective Fall 2011)
- HWST 213 Hawaiian Ethnozoology (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/JPST 101 Elementary Japanese I (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/JPST 102 Elementary Japanese II (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/JPST 107 Accelerated Element Japanese (effective Fall 2012)
- JPNS/JPST 201 Intermediate Japanese I (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/JPST 202 Intermediate Japanese II (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/JPST 301 Third-Year Japanese I (effective Fall 2015)
- JPNS/JPST 302 Third-Year Japanese II (effective Fall 2015)
- JPNS/JPSTWS 361 Girls and Women in Japan (effective Fall 2017)
- JPNS/JPSTENG 365 Japanese Lit in English (effective Fall 2013)
- JPNS/JPST 382 Gender & Disability in Manga (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/DRAMJPST 383 Japanese Theatre & Performance (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/JPST 385 Postwar Japn through Film (effective Fall 2011)
- JPNS/JPST 451 Structure Of Japanese I (effective Fall 2014)
- KHAW 103 First Lvl Trans Hawn Immersion (effective Fall 2013)
- KHAW 104 First Lvl Partial Hawn Immers (effective Fall 2013)
- KHAW 108 Accel First Lvl Hawn Immersion (effective Fall 2013)
- KHAW 133 First Lvl Hawn for Speakers (effective Fall 2013)
- KHAW 203 Second Lvl Univ Hawn Immers I (effective Fall 2013)
- KHAW 204 Second Lvl Univ Hawn Immers II (effective Fall 2013)
- KHAW 208 Accel Sec Lvl Univ Hawn Immers (effective Fall 2013)
- KHAW 233 Second Level Hawn for Speakers (effective Fall 2013)
- KOR 101 Elementary Korean I (effective Fall 2015)
- KOR 102 Elementary Korean II (effective Fall 2015)
- LANG/JPST 200 Intro to Jpns & Chns Studies (effective Fall 2017)
- LING 102 Introduction to Linguistics (effective Fall 2011)
- LING 133 Elem Indig Lang A-F (effective Fall 2013)
- LING 233 Inter Indig Langs A-F (effective Fall 2013)
- LING 412 Discourse Analysis (effective Fall 2011)
- MUS 102 University Chorus (effective Fall 2015)
- MUS 141 Computer Music (effective Fall 2013)
- MUS 160 Intro to Music Literature (effective Fall 2017)
- MUS 163 American Music & Popular Cult (effective Fall 2017)
- MUS 165 Introduction To Jazz (effective Fall 2017)
- MUS 166 Music in World Cultures (effective Fall 2014)
- MUS 180 Elementary Music Theory (effective Fall 2014)
- MUS 195 Contemporary Island Music (effective Fall 2017)
- MUS 365 History of Western Music I (effective Fall 2017)
- MUS 465 The World and the Composer (effective Fall 2017)
- MUS 163 American Music & Popular Cult (effective Fall 2017)
- MUS 404 Kapili Choir (effective Fall 2015)
- PHIL 100 Intro to Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 101 Intro to Asian Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 209 Reasoning (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 211 History of Ancient Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 213 History of Modern Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 220 Social Ethics (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 230 Belief, Knowledge & Truth (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 270 Love and Sex (effective Fall 2015) Course formerly offered as PHIL 180 until Fall 2018
- PHIL 300 History of Indian Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 301 Hist Of Chinese Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 302 Hist Of Buddhist Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 304 Ethics and Cultural Diversity (effective Fall 2015)
- PHIL 310 Metaphysics (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 313 19th Century Philosophy (effective Fall 2016)
- PHIL 315 Ethical Theory (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 323 Professional Ethics (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 327 Bioethics (effective Fall 2014)
- PHIL 329 Environmental Ethics (effective Fall 2015)
- PHIL 330 Philosophy of Art (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 340 Philosophy Of Religion (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 343 Comparative Philosophy (effective Fall 2016)
- PHIL 355 Philosophy of Sport (effective Fall 2016)
- PHIL 370 Indigenous&American Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 375 Feminist Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 381 Philosophy Of Wittgenstein (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 390 History & Phil of Science (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 392 Biology & Philosophy (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL/WS 393 Normality, Abnormality & Soc (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL/JPST 430 Philosophy of Zen (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL 435 Daoism (effective Fall 2011)
- PHIL/JPST 450 Mahayana Buddhist Phil (effective Fall 2011)
- SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I (effective Fall 2011)
- SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II (effective Fall 2011)
- SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I (effective Fall 2011)
- SPAN 202 Interm Spanish II (effective Fall 2011)
- SPAN/WS 368 Latin American Women's Lit (effective Fall 2011)
- SPAN 369 Lat&Glob Docum&Film:Crit Analy (effective Fall 2015)
- WS 359 Music and Activism (effective Fall 2017)