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Humanities and Letters Cluster

Through the Humanities and Letters cluster, students are provided with the opportunity to gain reflection on the richness of reality. In the pursuit of giving life meaning, students are empowered to think creatively and critically on transforming human conditions concerning the good, truth, arts, culture, and the infinite possibilities into distinctive forms of expression: reasoning, writing, speaking, designing, and performing.

Inspired by the Ignatian ideal of Cura Personalis and persons for and with others, the cluster aims to form individuals as productive members of society and effective agents of change, instilling the ethical responsibility of setting expression as a tool to foster deep dialogues, drive social transformation, and bridge diverse communities.

The HumLet Cluster brings together four departments — Languages, Literature, and Arts, Communication, Philosophy, and Theology (which uniquely stand apart from the rest of the cluster by offering programs exclusively at the graduate level).

Explore the HUMLET Programs

Department of Languages, Literature, and Arts

The Department of Languages, Literature, and Arts serves the needs of AB English and AB IDS students, as well as other programs requiring language subjects. Under the department are two language centers: the Matteo Ricci Mandarin Program, which focuses on the promotion of Mandarin language and Chinese culture; and the Ateneo Language Center, which offers instruction in English, Filipino, Cebuano, Nihonggo, and Spanish, among others. Aside from language training, the department also prepares students to have a keen appreciation of the processes and products of human creativity and culture, particularly literature and the Arts.

This training aims to form individuals who can express themselves creatively in any chosen endeavor, discriminate among human values, and live according to those values essential to their development as persons for others.

The department also offers a strong interdisciplinary studies track, giving students a wide range of specializations to choose from. Beyond the Bachelor of Arts in English Language, students may pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with a minor in Language and Literature, Media and Philosophy, Media and Technology, Media and Business, or Philosophy and Theology — allowing them to combine language and literary training with other fields depending on their interests and career direction.

Bachelor of Arts in English Language
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor in Language and Literature
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor in Media and Philosophy
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor in Media and Technology
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor in Media and Business
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor in Philosophy and Theology

Communication Department

The Communication Department offers theoretical and practical training in the basic fields of the discipline— research, journalism, film, radio, TV, advertising, and new media. The AB Mass Communication aims to form mass communicators who will respond to the challenges of present realities by harnessing available media resources in communicating truth and justice and whose performance will measure up to the standards of integrity, accuracy, responsibility, and leadership. It teaches courses in Communication Theory, Writing for Radio and TV, Advanced Newspaper Writing, Development Communication, Video Production, and Nonlinear Video Editing, among others.

Bachelor of Arts in Communication

Philosophy Department

The Philosophy Department engages students in the perennial task of posing and pursuing ultimate questions as these issues forth from the horizons of the person’s inalienable participation in reality and his responsibility as thinker and cocreator within a community of fellow seekers of truth. The AB Philosophy Program intends to awaken in its students the impulse of a thoughtful and discerning way of life anchored in a growing sensitivity toward the totality of reality, which demands to be translated in the varied preoccupations of human living. The Department offers courses in Philosophy of the Human Person, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Socio-Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Language, among others.

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

The program for philosophy stems from the tradition of human search for the true, the good, beautiful and the just grounded on the various ancient and contemporary traditions: the rational, intuitive, analytic, humanistic, scientific, technological, biological, intellection of both East and West. The program welcomes disciplines that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and other programs that explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

Faculty

Full-Time

  • Jayson James Bentayao
  • Apolinar Henry Fernandez
  • Dr. Christopher Ryan B. Maboloc
  • Frans Rey Nolasco
  • Dr. Ian Clark R. Parcon
  • Dr. Renante D. Pilapil
  • Rex T. Rola
  • Jeremy Glenn A. Tuvida
  • Dr. Vida Mia S. Valverde

Part-Time

  • Jan Monique Engbino
  • Lawrence Ray Espino
  • Karl Christianne Exala
  • Rhina Jane Literatos
  • Jamil Adrian Matalam
  • Edgar Rene Nartatez
  • Erik John Reyes

Theology Department

The Theology Department seeks to form students who are mature and committed Christians by providing for a critical understanding of the content of Faith and its practice. It invites students to deepen their awareness and understanding of God revealing Himself in History and of the message or mission of Jesus Christ in the light of the Scriptures and teachings of the Church. The Department is inspired by three interlocking thrusts: peace, inter-religious dialogue, and integrity of creation. It offers courses in Christology, Church History, Christian Morality, and Social Teachings of the Church.