The human studies combine the humanities with the social sciences to give students a broad and diversified perspective on human nature and culture. Active combinations of knowledge and experience equip human ecologists to know themselves and to address the problems and questions of the future.

Students in human studies courses focus on aspects of the human condition. We challenge you to blend contemporary social and ecological concerns with classical humanistic studies. Courses in anthropology, literature, economics, philosophy, psychology, history, education, law and political science relate the past to the present, deepen the awareness of one's place in time and provide both the knowledge and perspective to approach individual and cultural challenges.