How F&M Does Humanities
When you study humanities at F&M, you'll explore the ways people make sense of their lives through artistic, cultural and intellectual expression. You'll examine the range of human experience by studying languages, literature, philosophy, religions, and more.
Subjects You Can Study
- Africana Studies
- American Studies
- Chinese Language
- Classics
- Cognitive Science
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Dance
- Data Science
- English: Creative Writing, Literature
- Environmental Studies
- Film and Media Arts
- French and Francophone Studies
- German and German Studies
- Greek
- History
- History of Art and Architecture
- Hebrew
- International Studies
- Italian
- Japanese Language
- Judaic Studies
- Latin
- Latin American Studies
- Linguistics
- Moral Psychology
- Music
- Philosophy
- Public Health
- Religious Studies
- Russian and Russian Studies
- Science, Technology and Society
- Spanish
- Studio Art
- Theatre
- Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Out-of-the-Classroom Learning
We emphasize hands-on experiential work. When you study humanities at F&M, you’ll have opportunities to step out of the classroom and into the field to engage in different, dynamic forms of learning. With off-campus study and research opportunities, internships and more, you’ll collaborate with world-class humanities faculty, engage with the community, get practical, real-world experience and explore questions students elsewhere might only read about.
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Careers in Humanities
After graduating from F&M, many of our students pursue graduate studies in the humanities at leading programs around the world. Other students leverage the skills they've gained from the humanities — writing, analysis, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and cultural knowledge and awareness among others — and find success in careers in education, law, medicine, business, the nonprofit sector, and more.
Explore success beyond F&M »See Humanities at F&M in Action
June 12, 2025
London Calling: Kate McBride ’24 Chases Political Dreams Across the Pond
Emboldened by her research with F&M Global Barometers and a transformative study abroad experience in London, Kate McBride ’24 moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a master’s degree in political behavior at London School of Economics (LSE). “Those opportunities allowed me to discover a calling within myself that I don't think I would have discovered otherwise, and it completely altered my course of action going forward,” she said.
June 5, 2025
Students Study AI Ethics and Implications
A spring course, “Teaching and Learning Machine Ethics,” does more than explore the basic fundamentals of AI. It prepares students to teach machine ethics.
May 26, 2025
Saving an African Language
A Franklin & Marshall College anthropology professor helps produce the first dictionary for Pokot, an African language.