You are in the official 1999-2000 General Catalog
for California State University, Fresno.
The School of Arts and Humanities
Music Building, Room 186
(559) 278-3056
LUIS F. COSTA, Dean
The School of Arts and Humanities includes the following departments and programs:
Armenian Studies | Art and Design | Classical Studies | Communication
English | Foreign Languages and Literatures | Interdisciplinary Humanities
Linguistics | London Semester | Mass Communication and Journalism
Music | Philosophy
| Theatre Arts
The Mission of the School
The study of the arts and humanities provides a foundation in vision,
depth, and discernment for all areas of knowledge. From the "Know thyself"
of philosophy to the "Get it right" of journalism, the arts and
humanities illuminate everything from self to society.
Art, music, telecommunications, and theatre offer opportunities to participate
in and absorb the full range of creative and interpretive experience. English
and communication, letters and language, sum up the best that has been thought
and said. Foreign languages and linguistics do all of that and more. Besides
providing culture, in the Germanic sense of the term, knowledge of foreign
languages offers insights into whole new worlds of people. Linguistics offers
the same opportunity through the English language, but from the opposite
end of the telescope.
Journalism is best equipped to report on, comment on, and analyze the wisdom
and folly of today. Philosophy deals with the wisdom of the ages -- a heavy
phrase for a discipline that teaches us how remarkable and timelessly "modern"
the human mind has always been, from apple to Apple.
Given the broad spectrum of human concerns in the arts and humanities, it
should come as no surprise that the classical studies and the humanities
interdisciplinary minors are also housed in the school.
