It's either that our "Department of Literature", I'll check.

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According to the Oxford French Dictionary, it\'s \"Humanities\" in the US and \"Arts\" in Great Britain.

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Over 14,000 occurrences on Google:
IIT: The Lewis Department of Humanities
The Lewis Department of Humanities The humanities explore the nature, history,
imagining, and communication of the human values that guide science and ...
www.iit.edu/departments/humanities/ - 16k - Aug 13, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

Welcome to NELC at the University of Chicago
... News & Job Postings The Oriental Institute The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Department of Humanities The University of Chicago.
humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/ - 12k - Aug 13, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

ETHZ Research Report / Department of Humanities, Social and ...
Research Projects at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences. Institutes: Institute for Behavioural Sciences: Prof. ...
www.rereth.ethz.ch/gess/gess.inst_overview.html - 8k - Aug 13, 2003


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In the US, at least, the Department of Humanities corresponds to Faculté des Lettres in France (literature, philosophy, communication):
Department of Humanities
... The Humanities Department offers courses and programs which focus on human experience in its own terms - as in literature and philosophy. ...
www.wnmu.edu/academic/hum/humanities.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

Department of Humanities - New Mexico Tech
... ENGL 321, American Literature, 3 cr, 3 cl hrs Prerequisite: ENGL 112 or consent of instructor An historical survey of 17th, 18th, and 19th century writing ...
www.nmt.edu/~hum/courses/engcourses.html - 9k - Aug 13, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

Humanities Department Home Page
... Department of Humanities Telephone: 313-593-5433 Facsimile: 313-593-1902 3011 CASL ... offers
courses and programs in communications, literature, philosophy and ...
casl.umd.umich.edu/humanities/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

WPI Department of Humanities & Arts - Faculty & Staff
... Rhetoric, Writing and Communications; Contemporary Literature), jtrimbur@wpi ... Department
of Humanities & Arts Worcester Polytechnic Institute - 100 Institute Road ...
www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/HUA/People


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Jane: \"College\" in the US is generally used as a synonym for university, and the university (université) is divided into departments (facultés), which are called faculties in the UK. Who ever heard of a subdivision of a univeristy being called a \"college\" in the US?

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... 1992-1994. DEUG d\'Anglais (Faculté de Lettres d\'Orléans). ... 1994-1995. English
BA (Faculty of Arts, Orleans, France). Academy of Drama (Orleans, France). ...
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/5236/ParCar.html - 15k -
... Paul Valéry/Montpellier III is the arts faculty, situated within walking distance from ... I attend classes at Paul Valéry, Faculté de Lettres, which has 19,000 ...
www.keele.ac.uk/depts/solcca/ciel/experiences/ language/french-speak/montpellier.htm - 12k

See this example at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Ths same classification is applied at most North Amercian universities. A Faculty of Arts will have several departments in languages, literature, linguistics, etc...

www.mcgill.ca/faculties/

In the U.S., the equivalent institution is a liberal arts college or a regular university (in the humanities department).

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if you wanted to major in literature in the United States you would go to a REGULAR university or a liberal arts college (I think those terms are often synonymous) and choose a major in that area, but you would still be required to take courses in other subjects (i.e. \"distribution requirements\").

The \"liberal arts\" refers to academic disciplines such as languages, literature, history, philosophy, mathematics, and science, that provide information of general cultural concern.

So basically my point is: there is no such thing as a university that just offers education in literature. I think the philosophy here is that you should have a smattering of everything in college (since high schools failed to do that!). I went to a \"liberal arts college\", also known as Stanford University, and majored in Biology but also took literature, philosophy, mathematics, and history.

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