The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts is a college within the university. It was founded in 1928 as the Division of Social Sciences after being split off from the Division of Rural and Social Science. It was renamed in 1938 as the Division of Liberal Arts, renamed in 1945 as the School of Liberal Arts, and merged in 1949 with the School of Science to form the College of Arts and Sciences. It became its own faculty in 1970 under the name Humanities and Fine Arts, and split off to form its own college in 1993.
The college grants the following Bachelors degrees:
Afro-American Studies
Architecture (BFA)
Art Education
Art History
Art (BFA)
Art (BA)
Chinese
Classics
Classics and Philosophy
Comparative Literature
Dance (BA)
Dance (BFA)
English
French
German
History
Italian
Japanese
Judaic Studies
Linguistics
Linguistics and Russia
Linguistics and Philosophy
Linguistics and Psychology
Linguistics and Japanese
Linguistics and Chinese
Linguistics and German
Music (BM)
Music (BA)
Near-Eastern Studies
Philosophy
Portuguese
Russian and East European Studies
Spanish
Theater
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
The college grants the following Masters degrees:
Art Education (MA)
Art (MFA)
Architecture (MA)
English (MA, MFA)
French (MA, MAT)
Germanic and Scandinavian Studies (MA)
History (MA)
Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics (MA, MAT)
Italian (MAT)
Japanese (MA)
Comparative Literature (MA)
Chinese (MA)
Art History (MA)
Philosophy (MA)
Music (MFA)
Latin and Classical Humanities (MAT)
Theater (MFA)
Design (MS)
The college grants the following Doctorate degrees: