Academic Programs in the Humanities
The humanities at Carnegie Mellon consist of four departments. These departments collectively house 19 majors and 24 minors, as well as five Ph.D. programs and seven master programs.
Undergraduate Majors and Minors
Department of English
Majors
- Creative Writing
- Film and Visual Media
- Literature and Culture
- Professional Writing
- Technical Writing and Communication
Minors
- Creative Writing
- Film and Visual Media
- Literature and Culture
- Professional Writing
- Technical Writing and Communication
- Humanities Analytics
- Gender Studies
Department of History
Majors
- Social and Political History
- Global Studies
- Ethics, History and Public Policy
Minors
- Social and Political History
- African and African American Studies
- Anthropology
- Gender Studies
- Religion
- Science and Technology
Department of Modern Languages
Majors
- Chinese Studies
- German Studies
- Hispanic Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Applied Multilingual Studies
- French and Francophone Studies
- Russian Studies
Minors
- Chinese Studies
- German Studies
- Hispanic Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Arabic Studies
- Applied Multilingual Studies
- French and Francophone Studies
- Russian Studies
- Immersive Technologies in Arts and Culture
Department of Philosophy
Majors
- Philosophy
- Logic and Computation
- Linguistics
- Ethics, History, and Public Policy
Minors
- Philosophy
- Logic and Computation
- Linguistics
Graduate Programs
Department of English
- M.A. in Global Communication and Applied Translation
(in conjunction with the Department of Modern Languages) - M.A. in Literary and Cultural Studies
- M.A. in Professional Writing
- M.A. in Rhetoric
- Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies
- Ph.D. in Rhetoric
Department of History
- Ph.D. in History
Department of Modern Languages
- M.A. in Applied Second Language Acquisition
- M.A. in Global Communication and Applied Translation
(in conjunction with the Department of English) - Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition
Department of Philosophy
- M.S. in Logic, Computation, and Methodology
- M.A. in Philosophy
- Ph.D. in Logic, Computation, and Methodology
- Ph.D. in Philosophy
- Ph.D. in Pure and Applied Logic