BHA CURRICULUM

The Bachelor of Humanities and Arts (BHA) degree has three main curricular components:

1) General Education (Gen Ed)
The BHA General Education curriculum is a modified version of the H&SS Revised General Education program. BHA students are required to fulfill the following General Education requirements, a freshman research seminar requirement, a senior capstone project, and a computing skills workshop.

1. Communicating: Language and Interpretations (3 courses)
2. Reflecting: Societies and Cultures (1 course)
3. Modeling: Mathematics and Experiments (1 course)
4. Deciding: Social Sciences and Values (3 courses)
5. BXA Freshman Research Seminar (1 course)
6. BXA Capstone Project (1 course)
7. University Requirement: Computing @ Carnegie Mellon (1 mini-course)

For a full listing of BHA Gen Ed course requirements click here (PDF).

2) College of Fine Arts (CFA) Concentration
Students choose their fine arts concentration from among the five schools in CFA: Architecture, Art, Design, Drama, or Music. A student must meet entry requirements for the specific CFA school of their choice. While in the BHA Program, a student may change their CFA concentration only if they pass all admission requirements for that particular CFA school.

For a full listing of course requirements for each CFA concentration click below (PDF):
Architecture | Art | Design | Drama | Music

3) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) Concentrations
Students choose their humanities or social/behavioral concentration from the list of majors and minors offered by H&SS, or by self-designing an interdepartmental concentration. Areas of concentration are selected from the following departments: Economics, English, History, Interdepartmental Studies, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Social and Decision Sciences, Statistics.

For a full list of majors and minors offered by H&SS click here (PDF).

For an H&SS concentration sheet click here (PDF). The H&SS concentration sheet should be completed by the end of sophomore year.

BHA DEGREE REQUIREMENTS