Humanities is a broad academic field under which students study various types of human interactions, using methods that are largely analytical, critical or exploratory. But Humanities Honor’s is an interdisciplinary major drawing from literature, foreign languages, history, philosophy, visual art and music alongwith a tactic for the study of cultural and intellectual history. Humanities contains something explicit to explore in itself. As it serves several disciplines where human beings and the society focus on different kinds of studies.Humanities is also referred to ‘Integrated Humanities’ which states this stream as the study of History and Geography with Religious Education, Sociology, Psychology, Government and Politics and sometimes Law. It is also regarded as the subject where many humanities courses are taught in lectures and seminars.Humanities Honors make the student pursue further graduation work in the humanity disciplines for teaching in public and private schools, government, technology, tourism and civil or foreign service. On the other hand thinking about the Humanities Department as a whole, it offers classes that expand students awareness to the human condition.

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Educational structure in India

Humanities in INDIA is taught at the school level as intermediate (10+2), College level as Bachelors and at the universities it’s taught to award Master degree and PhD. Apart from universities India has various institutes catering to any specific area of Humanities as well.

School Level: Humanities in Intermediate level (10+2) is studied under Arts as a stream. Major subjects taught during intermediate are , political science, Hindi ( depending upon the board ), history, geography, English, sociology, etc.

Undergraduate level: Humanities as a subject is studied for 3 years maximum in India during the college education leading to award the student a Degree.

Post graduate level: it is studied for two years for the master’s degree in Universities.

Research (M Phil &PhD) level: There are several Universities across India which offers several specialization.

Major Subject Humanities

• History
• Political Science
• English
• Economics