Arts & Humanities
Arts and Humanities is a newly structured department. It emerged in early Spring 2006 during the post-Katrina era of institutional reorganization. The department houses academic programs which have their pre-Katrina baccalaureate degree granting status currently terminated. The areas of History and English expect to have their baccalaureate degree granting status re-created from Fall 2008.
The present curricula housed under the department of Arts & Humanities include English, Fine Arts, Geography, History, African-American Studies, Philosophy, Music, and Spanish. Under the post-Katrina modifications, these disciplines function as service programs fulfilling general academic requirements for majors of other degree-granting departments. However, the post-Katrina institutional restructuring also accommodates the graduation of pre-Katrina majors in the areas of Arts & Humanities who will be phased out within the next two years with a baccalaureate degree in their area of major. English, Fine Arts, History, African-American Studies, and Print Journalism are also approved as concentration areas in the General Studies degree program. Students electing concentration in any of these areas will take thirty (30) credit hours or ten courses in the concentration area which will include a mix of basic and 300 and 400 upper-level courses. The department of Arts & Humanities has been developing online courses in several of its disciplines, including History, Fine Arts, English, Humanities, and Print Journalism for accommodating distance-learning and the needs of storm-displaced, out-of-state students.
