M.A. of Interdisciplinary Humanities

The Interdisciplinary Humanities graduate group is an innovative graduate program that incorporates anthropology, the arts, history, and language and literature to offer individualized, research-based courses of study that explore cultures in their local manifestations and a global context. Students explore and apply the methods by which historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, scholars of cultural studies, and other humanists and social scientists examine societies and cultures. The program exposes students to many humanities professions and trains students to engage the public.

Career Outcomes

IHGG welcomes students planning careers both inside and outside academia. Our alumni are university professors, researchers, teachers, librarians, and government employees. Our graduates are specialists qualified for academic positions in core disciplines and border-crossing programs that know how to communicate with experts and the public.

The University of California Merced (UC Merced) is the newest campus in the University of California and the first American research university of the 21st century.

The University of California Merced continually strives for excellence in carrying out the university's mission of teaching, research, and public service, benefiting society by discovering and transmitting new knowledge and functioning as an active repository of organized knowledge. As a key tenet in carrying out this mission, the University of California Merced promotes and celebrates all community members' diversity.

A research university is a community bound by learning, discovery, and engagement. As the first American student-centered research university built in the 21st century, The University of California Merced's strong graduate and research programs mesh with high-quality undergraduate programs. New knowledge increasingly depends on links among the disciplines, working together on questions that transcend the traditional disciplines. The institution fosters and encourages cross-disciplinary inquiry and discovery.

Interdisciplinary practice in research nourishes undergraduate learning, building a foundation in connecting the ways that academic disciplines understand and grapple with society's problems. The University of California Merced undergraduates experiences education inside and outside the classroom, applying what they learn through undergraduate research, service learning, and leadership development.