DA, DH, DL: Arts, Humanities, Literature 2018-Current
Diversification Requirement, 6 credits
These courses use the yearsinology of the visual, performing, or creative arts; or of the study of philosophy, language, communication, or religion; or of literary representations.
- Students who wish to apply the DA, DH or DL requirement to courses not listed on this page must submit a Request for Modification of Academic Requirement (PDF) form which can be found on the Office of the Registrar - Commonly Used Forms page.
- To satisfy this requirement, students must select two courses from different categories.
DA: Arts
Courses Currently Certified
- ART 110 Visual Storytelling- Film & TV (3) (effective Fall 2023)
- ART 112 Introduction to Digital Media (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ART 121 FP Studio: Beg Drawing (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- DNCE 150 Intro To Dance (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 160 Ballet I (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 170 BegContemp Dance/Hawaiʻi Themes (3) (effective Fall 2022)
- DNCE 180 Jazz Dance I (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 190 Modern Dance I (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 260 Ballet II (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 270 IntContempDance Hawaiʻi/Themes (3) (effective Fall 2022)
- DNCE 280 Jazz Dance II (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 290 Modern Dance II (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 360 Ballet III (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 371 Choreography (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- DNCE 459 Topics in Dance (1–3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DNCE 460 Ballet IV (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DNCE 475 Dance Hawaiʻi Performance Group (3) (effective Fall 2022)
- DRAM 221 Beginning Acting I (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DRAM 222 Beginning Acting II (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DRAM 280 Basic Stagecraft (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- DRAM 318 /ENG 318 Playwriting (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- DRAM 321 Styles Of Acting (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DRAM 322 Acting Shakespeare (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DRAM 330 Stage Management (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DRAM 421 Acting Troupe (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DRAM 430 Directing (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- DRAM 490 Lyric Theatre (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- ENG 286A Intro to Fiction Writing (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 286B Intro to Poetry Writing (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- HWST 181A Indig Leadership thru Hula I (3) (effective Fall 2022)
- HWST 181E Indig Leadership thru Hula I (3) (effective Fall 2022)
- JPNS 340 /JPST 340 Japanese Composition (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- MUS 108 Fundamentals of Western Music (3) (Formerly offered as MUS 180 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2018)
- MUS 114 University Chorus (3) (Formerly offered as MUS 102 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2018)
- MUS 195 Contemporary Island Music (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- MUS230 [Course Info Not Available] (effective Fall 2024)
- MUS 404 Kapili Choir (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- MUS 419 Music in Education (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- MUS490 [Course Info Not Available] (effective Fall 2024)
Courses Previously Certified (Please see effective terms listed in parenthesis below)
- DNCE 419 Dance In Education (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- DRAM 419 Drama in Education (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- MUS 106 Intro to Music Literature (3) (Formerly offered as MUS 160 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- MUS 109 Music & Pop Culture in America (3) (Formerly offered as MUS 163 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- MUS 110 Introduction to Jazz (3) (Formerly offered a MUS 165 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- MUS 240 Creative Apps of Music Tech (3) (Formerly offered as MUS 141 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- MUS 365 History of Western Music I (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- MUS 366 History Of Western Music II (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- MUS 400 Topics in Music (3) (Formerly offered as MUS 465 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
DH: Humanities
Courses Currently Certified
- ART 360 Renaissance and Baroque Art (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ART 374 Art of the 19th Century (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ART 380 Art Of China (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ART 381 /JPST 381 Art of Japan (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ART 392 New Media Art Seminar (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- CHNS 100 Easy Chinese for Everyone (1) (effective Fall 2022)
- CHNS 101 Elementary Chinese I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- CHNS 102 Elementary Chinese II (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- CHNS 201 Intermediate Chinese I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- CHNS 240 CHN Culture in Sports Pastimes (1) (effective Fall 2022)
- CHNS 280 Introduction to CHNS Culture (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- CHNS 320 CHNS Festivals & Food Culture (3) (effective Fall 2023)
- CHNS 330 CH Culture via Classical Music (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- CHNS 350 Chinese Folklore and Symbolism (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- CHNS 360 Chinese Culture through Film (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- CHNS 381 Chns Cult thru Arch & Garden (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- CHNS 385 Chinese Archaeology (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- CHNS 387 CHNS Zen Temple Gardens in JPN (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- CHNS 430 Cultural Exchange on Silk Road (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- CHNS 440 Asian Architecture and Culture (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- COM 100 Human Comm in Diverse Society (3) (effective Fall 2023)
- DRAM 243 /SOC 243 Drama of Hawaiʻi & the Pacific (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- ELI 201 Academic Oral Communication 2 (4) (effective Fall 2020)
- ELI 203 Academic Reading Strategies 2 (4) (effective Fall 2020)
- ELI 204 Rhetorical Writing Styles 2 (4) (effective Fall 2020)
- ENG 285 /COM 285 Introduction to Media Writing (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ENG 287 Introduction to Rhetoric (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 289 The Rhetoric of Food (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 314 Advanced Multimedia Writing (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ENG 350 /LING 350 Second Lang Acquisition Theory (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ENG 388 Global Englishes (3) (effective Fall 2020)
- ENG 484 ESL Materials & Methods (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- FIL 330 Filipino Films (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- FIL 432 Spanish Heritage in the Phils (3) (effective Fall 2024)
- FIL 330 Filipino Films (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- HAW 101 Elementary Hawaiian I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- HAW 102 Elem Hawaiian II (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- HWST 125 Hawaiʻi Sustainable Dev Goals I (3) (effective Fall 2022)
- HWST 126 HI Sustainable Dev Goals II (3) (effective Fall 2022)
- HWST 175 /MUS 175 Intro Music Of Polynesia (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- HWST 176 /MUS 176 Hist & Dev Of Hawn Music (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- HWST 211 Hawaiian Ethnobotany (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- HWST 213 Hawaiian Ethnozoology (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 101 /JPST 101 Elementary Japanese I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 101S /JPST 101S Elementary Japanese I, Special (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 102 /JPST 102 Elementary Japanese II (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 102S Elementary Japanese II Special (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 201 /JPST 201 Intermediate Japanese I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 202 /JPST 202 Intermediate Japanese II (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 280 /JPST 280 Introduction to Japan (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 301 /JPST 301 Third-Year Japanese I (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 302 /JPST 302 Third-Year Japanese II (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 359 /JPST 359 Japanese in Hawaiʻi (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 361 /JPST 361 /WS 361 Girls and Women in Japan (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 370 /JPST 370 Lang, Cul & Identity of Japan (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 380 /JPST 380 Japanese Mythology in Film (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 382 /JPST 382 Gender & Disability in Manga (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 383 /JPST 383 /DRAM 383 Japanese Theatre & Performance (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 384 /JPST 384 /WS 384 Gender & Japanese Performance (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 422 /JPST 422 Japanese Teaching Practicum (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- JPNS 451 /JPST 451 Structure Of Japanese I (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 103 First Lvl Trans Hawn Immersion (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 104 First Lvl Partial Hawn Immers (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 108 Accel First Lvl Hawn Immersion (8) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 133 First Lvl Hawn for Speakers (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 203 Second Lvl Univ Hawn Immers I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 204 Second Lvl Univ Hawn Immers II (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 208 Accel Sec Lvl Univ Hawn Immers (8) (effective Fall 2018)
- KHAW 233 Second Level Hawn for Speakers (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- KPSY 341 Ulu Ke Keiki (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- LANG 200 /JPST 200 Intro to Jpns & Chns Studies (3) (effective Fall 2023)
- LING 102 Introduction to Linguistics (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 133A Elem Indig Lang: Systematic (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 133B Elem Indig Langs: Navaho (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 133C Elem Indig Langs: Chuukese (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 133D Elem Indig Langs: Yupik (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 133E Elem Indig Langs: Samoan (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 133F Elem Indig Langs: Other (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 233A Inter Indig Langs: Systematic (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 233B Inter Indig Langs: Navaho (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 233C Inter Indig Langs: Chuukese (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 233D Inter Indig Langs: Yupik (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 233E Inter Indig Langs: Samoan (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- LING 233F Inter Indig Langs: Other (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- MUS 106 Intro to Music Literature (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- MUS 110 Introduction to Jazz (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- MUS276 [Course Info Not Available] (effective Fall 2024)
- MUS 367 History of Pop Music (3) (effective Fall 2019)
- MUS 400 Topics in Music (3) (Formerly offered as MUS 465 prior to Fall 2019) (effective Fall 2022)
- PHIL 101 Intro to Asian Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 209 Reasoning (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 213 History of Modern Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 220 Social Ethics (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 270 /WS 270 Love and Sex (3) (Formerly offered as PHIL 180 prior to Fall 2018) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 300 History of Indian Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 301 Hist Of Chinese Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 302 Hist Of Buddhist Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 304 /WS 304 Ethics & Culture Diversity (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- PHIL 310 Metaphysics (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 313 19th Century Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 315 Ethical Theory (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 320 Social & Political Phil (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- PHIL 323 Professional Ethics (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 325 Philosophy Of Law (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- PHIL 327 Bioethics (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 329 Environmental Ethics (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 330 Philosophy of Art (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 340 Philosophy Of Religion (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 355 /KES 355 Philosophy of Sport (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 360 Existentialism (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- PHIL 370 Indigenous&American Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 375 /WS 375 Feminist Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 430 /JPST 430 Philosophy of Zen (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 435 Daoism (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- PHIL 484 ConservEthics & EnvironJustice (3) (effective Fall 2023)
- SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- SPAN 202 Interm Spanish II (4) (effective Fall 2018)
- SPAN 369 /WS 369 Lat&Glob Docum&Film:Crit Analy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- WS 359 /MUS 359 Music and Activism (3) (effective Fall 2018)
Courses Previously Certified (Please see effective terms listed in parenthesis below)
- ART 101 Intro To Visual Arts (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- CHNS 107 Accelerated Elementary Chinese (8) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- CHNS 200 Conversational CHNS Business (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- CHNS 202 Intermediate Chinese II (4) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- DRAM 101 Introduction to Theatre (3) (Formerly DRAM 271 Prior to Fall 2018) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2020)
- ENG 205 /WS 205 Hawaiʻi on Screen (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- FIL 101 Elementary Filipino I (4) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- FIL 102 Elementary Filipino II (4) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- FIL 200 Inter Conversational Filipino (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- FR 101 Elementary French I (4) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- FR 102 Elementary French II (4) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- HAW 201 Intermediate Hawaiian I (4) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- HAW 202 Inter Hawaiian II (4) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- JPNS 107 /JPST 107 Accelerated Element Japanese (8) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- JPNS 385 /JPST 385 /WS 385 Women & Health (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- LING 412 Discourse Analysis (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- PHIL 230 Belief, Knowledge & Truth (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- PHIL 343 Comparative Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- PHIL 381 Philosophy Of Wittgenstein (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- PHIL 390 History & Phil of Science (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- PHIL 393 /WS 393 Normality, Abnormality & Soc (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- PHIL 450 /JPST 450 Mahayana Buddhist Phil (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- SPAN 368 /WS 368 Latin American Women's Lit (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
DL: Literature
Courses Currently Certified
- DRAM 390 Survey Of Drama Literature (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- DRAM 483 /ENG 483 Modern/Contemporary Drama (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ENG 200B Intro to Lit Genres: Drama (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 200C Intro to Lit Genres: Poetry (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 200D Intro Lit Genres: Popular Fict (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 200E /WS 200E Lit Genres: Myth/Folklore (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 200F Intro to Lit Genres: Autobiogr (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 201 /WS 201 Global Cinema (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 202 /WS 202 Literature of Human Rights (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 204 /WS 204 Intr Race/Gender Film Studies (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 205 /WS 205 Hawaiʻi on Screen (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- ENG 206 /WS 206 Intro to Popular Culture (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 257 /WS 257 Multicultural Literature (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 275 Literature of the Earth (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 323 The Literature of Hawaiʻi (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 345 Children & Literature (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 355 /WS 355 Women in Modern Lit & Film (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 423 /WS 423 Post-Colonial Literature (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 430 /WS 431 Pacific Islands Literature (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- ENG 448 /WS 448 Graphic Novels & Comics (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 365 /JPST 365 /ENG 365 Japanese Lit in English (3) (effective Fall 2018)
- JPNS 425 /JPST 425 Translation Workshop (3) (effective Fall 2021)
- PHIL 211 History of Ancient Philosophy (3) (effective Fall 2018)
Courses Previously Certified (Please see effective terms listed in parenthesis below)
- ENG 200A Lit Genres: Short Story/Novel (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)
- ENG 253 World Lit: Class-17th Century (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2020)
- ENG 254 World Lit: 17th Cent-Present (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2020)
- ENG 290 Literature and Medicine (3) (effective Fall 2018 - Summer 2021)