Ethics and Values in Society
This minor can help you do meaningful work to improve your community and your own life.
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Humanities and Languages
History Master’s
SUNY Geneseo’s master of arts program in history offers advanced training in United States and global history with a strong grounding in historical content, public engagement, and advanced skills in research, analysis, and writing.
Individualized Studies
Students majoring in Geneseo’s individualized studies program design a liberal arts and sciences study program that fits their interests and needs.
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German
German is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, as a primary language in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, a second language throughout the European Union, and often in Asian and African countries.
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Gender, sexuality, and women’s studies aims to understand gender and sexuality as interrelated systems of structural inequality. The department centers gender minorities—including women and LGBTQ+ people—in everything it does, but it also focuses on the ways in which sexism, heterosexism, and cisexism harm all people, including men and straight cisgender individuals.
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Spanish
Spanish is the most common non-English language spoken in the US and the second-most spoken globally, making a broad awareness of Hispanic cultures and heritages valuable for almost any career path.
Philosophy
Philosophy class sizes are small, and majors are encouraged to combine philosophy with other majors. Courses explore responsible citizenship, intellectual humility, and skills desired by today’s employers: analysis, communication, leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving.
History
History courses at Geneseo let students explore how humans throughout history have survived, grown, resisted, and changed—from the environmental history of modern Africa to the struggle for workers’ rights in the 20th-century US to the intellectual history of the Islamic world.
French
French is the only language other than English that is spoken on all five inhabited continents. At Geneseo, students learn not just about France, but about the whole Francophone world, from professors with extensive knowledge of Africa, Europe, and French-speaking Canada.
English
Widely honored for its teaching excellence, the English department believes students flourish when given the freedom to pursue their own passions. The English major is short on rigid requirements and long on dynamism and variety.