Humanities Fact sheet
Exploring the human experience with creativity and compassion
The humanities division at The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences uncovers the human adventure across time, history, culture and place. Students gain firm foundations in writing, language study, research and reasoned argument that enable them to tackle real-world problems.
Tackling real-world problems
By connecting the study of the past to both the present and the future, the humanities inform global issues like climate change, technological advancement and social injustice. Faculty and scholars in the humanities division are leaders in applying humanities methodologies to current issues and events.
Addressing climate risks in vulnerable cities
In the Humanities Lab’s “Diplomacy Lab: Latin America” course, students developed a research project and presented climate solutions to the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy Brasilia.
Leading humanities research and education
We’re educating the next generation in the power of language, culture, societies and critical thinking. First-oftheir-kind degree programs and worldclass research are available at scale to a large and diverse student population.
Informing desert research with humanities perspectives
The Desert Humanities, housed within the Humanities Institute, fosters partnerships among artists, writers, humanists, scientists and community groups to apply historical and cultural contexts to desert research.
The human impacts of artificial intelligence
The Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is one of 15 university groups nationwide to receive National Humanities Center funding, sponsored by a gift from Google, to develop curriculum on responsible AI.
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The core of a worldclass education
The humanities are not only central disciplines to a well-rounded education but are also essential to building just, sustainable futures with creativity, curiosity and compassion. Language, history, creative writing and more provide important perspectives for individuals and societies.
Academic units
Department of English
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
School of International Letters and Cultures
Centers and institutes
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Asia Center
Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture
Center for Imagination in the Borderlands
Center for Jewish Studies
Center of Muslim Experience in the United States
Center for Public Humanities
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Chinese Language Flagship Center
Desert Humanities Initiative
Humanities Institute
Humanities Lab
Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
Project Humanities
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
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The humanities are at the core of what we do. Who are we? Where did we come from? How do we create? These are all questions the humanities ask. …
“What we have tried to do at ASU is to empower our humanists to be maximally creative. And there’s a lot of things I’m hopeful we’ll still be able to do, new areas of philosophy and new areas of religious studies and new areas of historical studies and new ways of thinking and new ways of communicating about all of the complexities of the human spirit.”
— Michael M. Crow President, Arizona State UniversityJanuary 2024
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