Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Humanities] From Reed College
Portland, OregonLocation
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Estd1908established year
1447enrollment
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Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Humanities)
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Reed College offers an educational program based on “an honest effort to disregard old historic rivalries and hostilities between the sciences and the arts, between professional and cultural subjects, and, I might add, the formal chronological cleavage between the graduate and the undergraduate attitude of mind.”
The above statement was taken from the remarks made to the Association of American Colleges by Richard F. Scholz, second president of Reed College, in 1922. It remains a fundamental commitment today. A major focus of that commitment is the humanities program, which, since its inception in 1943, has served as a model for many similar programs throughout the nation. In 1995 the program opened a new chapter with the inauguration of Chinese humanities as an integral component.
Each Reed student’s educational program includes one year of humanities studies in the first year. The student may elect to continue the study of humanities with courses in the early modern and modern periods of European civilization or in the foundations of Chinese civilization.
The humanities curriculum places primary emphasis not upon information, important as that may be, but upon the development of disciplined thinking and writing through the interpretation of works of art, literature, or other means by which people have expressed themselves and ordered their lives, individually and socially. Courses acquaint students with poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, music, religion, philosophical systems, forms of political and social order, and historical works.
Students are encouraged to think about course materials in their cultural contexts and from the perspective of a variety of individual disciplines. For instance, in the plays of Aeschylus the handling of aristocratic legends reflects the contemporary political concern with tyranny, as in the Agamemnon, and with the substitution of city justice for blood revenge, as in the Eumenides. Similar methods of interpretation apply to later periods in Europe, with such figures as St. Augustine, Shakespeare, Locke, J.S. Mill, Flaubert, Conrad, and Woolf. In the study of Chinese civilization, Sima Qian’s Shi Ji is examined both for its philosophy of history and for its implications concerning narrative theory, while the shi- and ci-poetry of the Song dynasty are treated as embodiments of both an expanding aesthetic vision and changing social values. All the courses attend to the fine arts, for example, the Acropolis as a focus of the city-state, the sculptural program of Augustus’s Altar of Peace, architecture of the Italian Renaissance, 18th-century interior decoration, funerary art of the Han period, and landscape painting of Song China.
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Tuition Fees
Year
1st Year Fees
Tuition Fees
$64450 (USD 64450)
Other Expenses
Head
Avg Cost Per Year
Room and Board
$15640 (USD 15640)
Books and supply
$1050 (USD 1050)
Other Fees
$310 (USD 310)
Total Cost
$17000 (USD 17000)
Previous Year Tuition Fees
Year
1st Year Fees
2021
$62420 (USD 62420)
Eligibility & Entry Requirement
Academic Eligibility:
International applicants whose native language is not English are encouraged but not required to submit results of English proficiency.
Either TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, ACT, or documentation that you attended an English medium school.
If you attended an English medium school or English medium program, we do not require testing.
The student’s school completes the school report. This document provides context about students’ s school and aids in the holistic review process.
Secondary school transcripts can be emailed to admission@reed.edu.
Transcripts must come from the school to be considered official. The admission committee requires full secondary school transcripts (and college or university records, if any). These transcripts must be translated into English.
Students studying under a system that requires examination (for example, the International Baccalaureate or the British system) are asked to submit exam results at the time of completion.
Reed is now test-blind, meaning they will neither require nor use testing results from the SAT or ACT in our admission review for the fall 2021 and fall 2022 cycles.
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