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Programs in Humane Letters

The University of Tulsa’s Humane Letters program invites students to join a centuries-old conversation about what makes for a meaningful and well-lived life.

Through participation in our Socratic-style seminars, students will become exceptional in the arts of communication and dialectic, learn to respectfully challenge themselves and others, and become more discerning with respect to the most important intellectual and ethical issues that confront us as human beings and citizens today.

Humane Letters majors are automatically in the Honors Program. The major is for those who want an especially deep engagement with classic texts and the perennial questions that matter most to us as individuals and members of a greater community, including those that inform the greatest scientific discoveries and artistic creations of our inherited tradition.

6 Classical Text-Based Seminars

80 Hours of Community Service

Double Major in Any Degree Program

#1 National Merit Scholars Per Capita

Degrees Offered

Professional Opportunities

Happy UTulsa Honors students smiling at commencement

The Humane Letters degree is for students interested in joining the centuries-old conversation about what makes for a meaningful and well-lived life. In addition to preparing graduates to work in Classical Education, UTulsa’s flexible dual-major plans also provide students with the unique opportunity to use humane letters studies as a foundation for ethical and intellectual problem-solving in any field.

Job opportunities:

  • K-12 Classical Education teacher or administrator
  • Public health or policy advocate
  • Computer science/artificial intelligence ethicist
  • Non-profit organizations
  • Seminary and theological leadership
  • Counseling
  • Law, medical, or humanities graduate studies

Beyond the Classroom

  • GLOBAL EDUCATION
  • STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
  • SOCIAL JUSTICE & SERVICE
  • JOB PLACEMENT
    • Grow through travels.

      Learning is an individualized journey that extends far beyond a major or the walls of a classroom. The Honors College is committed to offering unique study abroad opportunities that integrate place and culture into the study of Classic Texts. Studying abroad allows Honors students to deepen their appreciation for various cultures, histories, and perspectives on what it means to be human.

      Honors Study Abroad

    • Make your UTulsa experience as rich and diverse as you like.

      UTulsa students have abundant opportunities to get involved with clubs and organizations to develop new skills, meet new friends, and make lifetime memories. From international clubs, music groups, and intramural sports to Greek life, student government, and on-campus leadership, there’s truly something for everyone at UTulsa. Our multi-faceted extracurricular options perfectly complement our multidisciplinary academic approach.

      Student Organizations

    • Be the change you want to see.

      Honors students complete a minimum of 80 hours of community service in order to graduate, putting into practice their insights into human nature, friendship, society, virtue, and the common good. The Honors College collaborates with the Office of Civic Engagement, which has more than 100 partnerships in the Tulsa area, to ensure students find issues they care about deeply and people that they can meaningfully support—people who, in turn, will help those students cultivate the habits of character and mind critical to advancing positive and powerful transformations in their communities.

      CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

    • Pursue success with confidence — backed by UTulsa's job placement guarantee.

      UTulsa is committed to our students’ professional success, which is why our Center for Career Development, aka CaneCareers, offers a job placement guarantee program. We promise that students who follow the program will land an entry-level job in their chosen field or continue their education within six months of graduation, or we’ll give them a free semester of grad school.

      Job Placement

    Learn more about the Honors College

    Our goal in the Honors College is to educate our students to lead flourishing lives of purpose and meaning no matter what career path they ultimately choose to pursue. By learning from great thinkers of the past, we prepare you for a life that is worth living. Everything we do at the College is animated by our core values: Wisdom, Virtue, Friendship.

    Honors College