Humanities & Teacher Education

About Our Division

The Humanities and Teacher Education Division offers Bachelor of Arts degrees with majors in the following disciplines:

• Creative Writing
• English
• Film Studies
• History
• Liberal Arts
• Philosophy

The division also offers the following minors:

• African American Studies
• Creative Writing
• English
• Film Studies
• History
• Philosophy
• Professional & Academic Writing
• Women's Studies

The Master of Arts Degree is offered in American Studies. The Teacher Education Program offers a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential (Elementary) and a Single Subject Teaching Credential (Secondary). A Master of Fine arts degree is offered in Screen and Television Writing.

Please contact the following Program Directors for further information on specific programs:

Each year, the HUTE Division sponsors a Symposium that gathers students, faculty, and members of the wider University to join in convivial discussion on a different thought-provoking topic each month.

Each spring graduating Seniors gather with faculty at an annual HONORS BANQUET to celebrate their academic accomplishments. We are proud that four of our graduates have been selected as Fulbright recipients.

The HUTE Division also sponsors EXPRESSIONISTS, the student literary and fine arts magazine that is published each spring. EXPRESSIONISTS is a multi-genre publication that is compiled and edited by Pepperdine undergraduates, and presented to the university community at a gala gathering each spring.  The EXPRESSIONISTS staff also oversees a Coffeehouse gathering each semester where students from all disciplines are encouraged to share their work in an open microphone setting.