DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Dr. Sudipta Das

Chair

Park Campus

Multipurpose 236

(504) 286-5154 Main

Arts and Humanities is a newly structured department.  It emerged in early Spring 2006 during the post-Katrina era of institutional reorganization.  The department houses academic programs, some of which have their pre-Katrina baccalaureate degree granting status currently terminated.  The areas of History and English have their baccalaureate degree granting status re-created from Fall 2008.

The present curricula housed under the department of Arts and Humanities include English, Fine Arts, Geography, History, African-American Studies, Philosophy, Music, Spanish and Communication.  Under the post-Katrina modifications, these disciplines, with the exception of History and English, function as service programs fulfilling general academic requirements for majors of other degree-granting departments. 

English, Fine Arts, History, African-American Studies, and Print Journalism are also approved as concentration areas in the General Studies degree program.  Students electing concentration in any of these areas will take thirty (30) credit hours or ten courses in the concentration area which will include a mix of basic and 300 and 400 upper-level courses.  The department of Arts & Humanities has been developing online courses in several of its disciplines, including History, Fine Arts, English, Humanities, and Print Journalism for accommodating distance-learning and the needs of storm-displaced, out-of-state students.

The department of Arts and Humanities, along with the department of Social Sciences, is currently working toward resuscitating the national and international Race, Gender, and Class Conference from 2011.  The two departments are also excited to engender in the near future an activity entitled, “Undergraduate Research Day” on SUNO campus, and sponsor the creation of an Undergraduate Research Journal as a refereed publication.