“Yes, they teach the one thing that is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very few students bother to learn it.”
“This one basic skill is the ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking.”
— Peter Drucker, “How to be an Employee”
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In recent years, executives in companies emphasize the significance of soft skills in the workplace. However, more than just the ability to organize and express ideas in speaking and writing, the ability to formulate and develop ideas from observation, research, and analysis is another skill crucial to any professional field. These particular skills among many others are honed and polished within the different disciplines that comprise the Humanities. Thus, more than preparing students to become profitable members of the workforce, the Humanities Program prepares its students to become exemplary citizens in whatever community or workplace setting they find themselves in.
The Humanities Program confers the following degrees:
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities with 18 Units in Creative Writing
The Bachelor of Arts in Humanities is designed to train Humanities students in the methods practiced in the humanistic disciplines of Literature, History, Philosophy, Art, and Language. The courses offered aim at developing the use of multi-disciplinary approaches of research, interpretation, analysis, and appraisal in the study of the human person, human society, and culture. By the end of the AB Humanities Program, the student becomes a proficient practitioner of the humanistic methods.
Students of the Humanities Program with Specialization in Creative Writing are trained in the complementary use of various methods drawn from different humanistic disciplines to develop a deeper understanding of the constantly changing socio-cultural landscape and apply these methods to Creative Writing. This training and understanding equips the humanities graduate to innovate and develop new ideas that meet the demands of modern-day career opportunities, particularly in the literary field.
Health Humanities is a multidisciplinary course that sets the preparation for professions in the fields of medicine and healthcare on a humanistic foundation. As the Humanities expose students to the wealth of human pursuits and achievements, this course provides an excellent venue for students to esteem the deep significance of what it means to be human. This valuable mindset and disposition is what current practice in healthcare deem indispensable. After all, the beneficiaries of all healthcare practitioners are humans, persons who possess dignity, values, and the right to human flourishing and fulfillment. The UA&P Health Humanities Program provides its students with a distinct integral education which develops in them a whole-person perspective which will be their cutting edge as future professionals in the field of healthcare that is moving toward patient-centered care.
The Master of Arts in Humanities is designed to strengthen the student’s proficiency in one of the humanistic disciplines while complementing it with the context of the remaining four. Central to this program is the Thesis Writing. The courses surrounding Research Methodology, Thesis Writing 1 and 2 help the students to zero in on a field or issue that they may want to pursue or address upon graduation. By the end of the MA Humanities Program, on top of becoming a proficient practitioner of the humanistic methods, the student develops a professional edge on the field of their thesis topic.
Location
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Faculty Center, 7th floor ACB Bldg. University of Asia and the Pacific Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center, 1605 Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
