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College of Humanities and Fine Arts
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.
Departments
The college is made up of the following departments
- Department of Afro-American Studies
- Department of Art
- Department of Art History
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Classics
- Department of English
- Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
- Department of Languages Literatures & Cultures
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Music & Dance
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Theater
- Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Degrees
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:
- Afro-American Studies
- Comparative Literature
- English
- Germanic and Scandinavian Studies
- Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
- History
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
