Program requirements

As indicated in the UNC Charlotte catalog, a minimum of 18 credit hours are required for this minor, including:

Program Requirements

Introductory Course (3 hours)

  • HTAS 2100 Introduction to Humanities, Technology, and Science (3)

Subjects in the Areas of History and/or Philosophy of Science or Technology (6 hours)*

  • HIST 2110 Technology and Science in Society I: Before the Industrial Revolution (3)
  • HIST 2111 Technology and Science in Society II: Since the Industrial Revolution (3)
  • PHIL 3520 Philosophy of Science (3)
  • PHIL 3920 Philosophy of Technology (3)

*You may take more than 6 credit hours of the above courses. The courses beyond the required 6 credit hours will count as electives.

Electives (9 hours)

  • ANTH 2151 General Archaeology (3)
  • ANTH 3122 Culture, Health, and Disease (3) (W)
  • ANTH 3124 Food, Nutrition, and Culture (3)
  • ANTH 3152 Early Civilizations (3)
  • ANTH 3222 Culture, Health, and Disease (3)
  • ARCH 4213 Architectural History Elective (3)
  • CJUS 3310 Punishment and Freedom (3)
  • CJUS 4110 Computer Crime (3)
  • COMM 3052 Topics in Mass Media (3)
  • COMM 3120 Communication and Mass Media (3)
  • COMM 3121 Mass Communication and Society (3)
  • ENGL 2116 Introduction to Technical Communication (3) (W)
  • ENGL 3110 Literature and Science (3)
  • ENGL 3180 Language and Digital Technology (3)
  • ENGL 4008 Topics in Advanced Technical Communication (3)
  • ENGL 4275 Rhetoric of Technology (3) [NEEDS APPROVAL]
  • ESCI 2101 The Environmental Dilemma (3)
  • GEOG 3250 World Food Problems (3)
  • HIST 2120 American Military History 1607-Present (3)
  • HIST 2140 Disease and Medicine in History (3)
  • HIST 3155 Health and Healing in Africa (3)
  • HONR 3701 Science, Technology, and Human Values (3)
  • HTAS 3800 Independent Study in Humanities, Technology, and Science (3)
  • ITCS 3688 Computers and Their Impact on Society (3)
  • ITIS 3130 Human-Computer Interaction (3)
  • POLS 3154 Cyberspace and Politics (3)

Fall 2017 Additions to the above Electives

Please note, many of these have prerequisites. The HTAS Coordinator cannot provide special permission for students who don’t have the appropriate prerequisite(s) or Major designation if required.​

  • ANTH 2090-004 Topics in Anthropology: Creationism, the Bible, and Human Origins (3)
  • ANTH 2127-001 Environmental Anthropology (3)
  • ANTH 2142-001 Primate Behavioral Ecology (3)
  • ANTH 3112-001 Globalization and Culture (3)
  • ANTH 3122-001 Culture, Health, and Disease (3)
  • ANTH 3135-001 Origins of Globalization (3)
  • CJUS 2060-001 Ethics and the CJUS System (3)
  • COMM 3051-001 Topics in Health Communication: Health and Media (3)
  • COMM 3127-001 Global Media (3)
  • HIST 2001-A02 Topics in European History: War, Culture, and Society from Renaissance to Napoleon (3)
  • ESCI 3101-001 Global Environmental Change (3)
  • ESCI 3190-001 Biogeography (3)
    • Cross-listed with GEOG 3190 (3)
  • GEOG 2165-001 Patterns of World Urbanization (O) (3)
  • GEOG 3115-001 Urban Transportation Problems (W) (3)
  • GEOG 3205-001 Internal Structure of the City (3)
  • GEOG 3215-001 Environmental Planning (3)
  • MGMT 3282 Managerial Ethics (3)
  • PHIL 3990 Deliberative Democracy (3)

Other courses that do not appear on the above list, especially topics and independent study courses, will be approved if they are pertinent to the student’s program and deal with an HTAS topic. Examples of such courses approved by their departments for enrollment by HTAS students are:

  • ARCH 4050 Architecture Elective – Topics (3)
  • ANTH 2090 Creationism (3)
  • HIST 3001 Topics in European History (3)
  • HIST 3002 Topics in Non-Western History (3)
  • POLS 3030 Topics in Comparative or International Politics (3)
  • RELS 2000 Creationism (3)
  • THEA 4001 Topics in Theater (3) (W)

The above list isn’t exhaustive of the courses that may also count towards the HTAS minor. Most courses with “technology,” “science,” “new media,” “industrial,” “computer,” “inforrmatics,” “data science”, and “big data” in the title, assuming they are coming from a humanistic perspective, will count. Contact the minor coordinator for more information.