The list of courses in BAHS program

Updated on 18 September 2023

All BAHS courses (excluding foreign language courses) begin with the course code "049XXX".

For BAHS Core courses (200-level), the program offers most of the courses in semester 1 and 2. However, for Humanities Elective courses, the availabilities depend on the course arrangements of the program. For current students, they can get updates on available 300 and 400-level courses in upcoming semester in this website.

BAHS core courses

100 Introduction to Humanities and Sustainability (mandatory)
191 Academic Skills for Humanities Studies (mandatory)
211 Literary Narratives in Global Cultures (literature-based course)
212 Creative Expression: Genres and the World’s Stories (creative writing-based course)
221 Ideas and Liberations around the World (philosophy-based course)
222 Language, Mind, and the World (linguistic-based course)
231 Global History: Society and the Environment (history-based course)
232  Aesthetics and Cultures in Placmaking (art history-based course)
241 Visual Studies and Society (media studies-based course)
251 Gender, Culture, and Equality (cultural studies-based course)
252 Human, Science, and Technology and Planet Earth (STS-based course)

Courses from other faculties that can be counted as BAHS core courses:

152211 - Introduction to Southeast Asia (Faculty of Social Sciences)
152241 - Religions and Social Change (Faculty of Social Sciences)
126101 - Introduction to International Relations (Faculty of Political Sciences and Public Administration)

Humanities elective courses

300-level courses

311 Literary Media and the Environment
312 Imagining Futures through Graphic Novels
313 Global Cultures and Genres of Life Writing    
321 Posthumanism
322 Emerging Technologies and Ethics
331 Chiang Mai: A Global City
332 Advertising Fiction: Past, Present, and Future
333 History of Books and Textual Objects
341 Ethnicity and Contemporary Media Cultures
342 Health and Medicine in Visual Media Cultures
343 Diaspora and Transnational Studies
351 Conundrums of the Postcolonial World
352 Desire and the Production of Cultures
353 Eco-Nations: Critical and Creative Perspectives

400-level courses

411 Practice in Distant Reading and Computational Interpretation
412 Text and Healing
413 Language Arts and Community Service
417 Script and Stage
418 Creative Writing
419 Literary Journalism and Media Communication
429 Selected Topics in the Psychology of Language and Communication
431 Digitizing Cultures Project: Stories and Oral Histories
439 Selected Topics in Global Studies
449 Selected Topics in Screen and Visual Cultures
451 Environmental Humanities in Praxis
461 Humanities Lab for Social Enterprises
497 Humanities Internship
498 Cooperative Education
489 Independent Study
499 Overseas learning experience

Foreign language courses

The foreign languages that are available for BAHS program are as follows:

1. Thai
2. Chinese
3. Korean
4. Japanese
5. Hindi
6. German
7. Spanish

The specific names and course codes of each language group can be found in the official curriculum book. The minimum requirement is that students have to take 12 credits of these foreign language courses (4 courses), in which 6 credits (2 courses have to be the same language).