Welcome to World Humanities at The City College of New York.  This program exposes students from all disciplines to some of the masterpieces in world literature while enhancing verbal and written communication skills.  World Humanities I and World Humanities II are literature courses in the English Department that satisfy the CUNY Pathways Core Requirement of World Cultures and Global Issues (Category 3).

“It is the poet’s job to inflame man’s awareness with… love, to awaken him from indifference…. In this wide world, it is from literature that we can understand which people have come very close to the people of other countries.  Through this love alone man can judge man.”

-Rabindranath Tagore, “Gathering Harvest”