Academic Programs

Masters in Center for the Humanities

The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY, was founded in 1993 as a public forum for people who take ideas seriously inside and outside the academy. By bringing together CUNY students and faculty with prominent journalists, artists, and civic leaders, the Center seeks to promote the humanities and humanistic perspectives in the social sciences. In the tradition of CUNY and the Graduate Center’s commitment to ensuring access to the highest levels of educational opportunity for all New Yorkers, all events are free and open to the public.

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Masters in Comparative Literature

The Comparative Literature program offers coordinated courses in literature, theory, criticism, aesthetics, and translation, including literatures in English-American, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Slavic languages, classical Greek, and Latin. Students take courses in the national and classical literature programs as well as in Comparative Literature. They may register for certificates in Film Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and Women's Studies. Texts and contexts range from ancient times to the present. Because more than thirty professors are on the Comparative Literature doctoral faculty, seminars and tutorials taught within the program cover a rich variety of subjects and methodologies ranging from the visual arts, music, and theatre, to history, political science, anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, philology, and other disciplines. Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature are offered with specializations in Italian, Classical Greek, and Latin. With their adviser's consent, students are also allowed to take courses through the Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium at Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, New School University, Stony Brook University, Rutgers University, Teachers College, and Fordham University. The program also offers a master's degree in Comparative Literature.

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PhD in Art History

The Ph.D. Program in Art History is dedicated to the development of scholars, teachers, museum personnel, art critics, and other professionals. Students specialize in one area while gaining a full general background in the history of art. Arrangements have been made through the cooperation of various art institutions for students to avail themselves of New York City’s unparalleled opportunities for the study of art history through firsthand experience with art objects and monuments. The program’s Visual Resource Collection includes a rapidly growing digital database, containing more than a half-million images, that is online and searchable.

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