Students in the humanities study all aspects of human culture, including language, literature, history, philosophy, fine art, architecture, cinema, classics, culture, religion, drama and music.  From ancient Egypt to post-colonial literature, from languages to the civilizations of Asia, a wide variety of courses and programs in the humanities provide students with the knowledge, intellectual skills and habits of thought indispensable to a modern education.

The following is a list of programs of study students can apply to at the end of their first year.  Courses demarcated with a (J) mean they are jointly listed under both Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Aboriginal Studies (J)
• African Studies (J)
• American Studies (J)
• Art History
  
• Asian Canadian Studies
  
• Asian Literatures and Cultures  (offered through National University of Singapore)
  
• Bioethics
• Book and Media Studies
• Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
• Buddhist Studies
• Business German
• Canadian Studies (J)
• Caribbean Studies (J)
• Celtic Studies
• Christianity and Culture
• Christianity and Education
  
• Cinema Studies
• Classical Civilization
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
  
• Cognitive Science
• Concurrent Education: Education and Society
• Concurrent Education: Religious Education
  
• Contemporary Asian Studies
• Czech and Slovak Studies
• Diaspora and Transnational Studies
• Drama
• East Asian Studies (J)
• Education and Society
  
• English
• Environmental Ethics (J)
• Equity Studies (J)
• Estonian Studies
• Ethics, Society, and Law (J)
• European Studies (J)
• European Union Studies (J)
• Finnish Studies
• French as a Second Language
• French Language and French Linguistics
• French Language and Literature
• French Studies
• German Studies
• German Studies in English
  
• Greek
• Health Studies (J)
• History
• History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Hungarian Studies
• International Relations (J)
• Islamic Studies
• Italian
• Italian Culture and Communication Studies
• Italian Second Language Learning
• Jewish Studies
• Languages
  
• Latin
• Latin American Studies (J)
  
• Linguistics
• Literary Studies
  
• Literary Studies (Comparative Literature Stream)
• Literary Studies (Cultural Theory Stream)
• Material Culture (J)
  
• Mediaeval Studies
• Music
• Music History and Culture
• Music with Ensemble Option
• Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
• Philosophy
• Polish Language and Literature
• Polish Studies
• Portuguese
• Religion
• Religion: Christian Origins
• Renaissance Studies
• Russian Language
• Russian Language and Literature
• Russian Literature in Translation
  
• Semiotics and Communication Theory
• Sexual Diversity Studies (J)
• South Asian Studies (J)
• South Slavic Studies
  
• Spanish
• Ukranian Language and Literature
• Visual Studies
• Women and Gender Studies (J)
• Writing and Rhetoric
• Yiddish