The arts are usually considered as part of the humanities.

These include visual arts such as painting and

sculpture, as well as performing arts such as theatre and dance, and literature. Other humanities such as
language are sometimes considered to be part of the arts, for example as the language arts.

The humanities are a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the
human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to
define any discipline. The humanities are usually distinguished from the social sciences and the natural
sciences and include subjects such as the classics, languages, literature, music, philosophy, the
performing arts, religion and the visual arts.

I have drawn the Yin and Yang because it suit best in my understanding in arts and humanities, Yin and
Yang is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes how obviously Opposite or contrary forces
may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how
they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.

Just like the Yin and Yang, Arts and Humanities illustrates, each side has at its core an element of the
other. Neither pole is superior to the other and, as an increase in one brings a corresponding decrease in
the other, a correct balance between the two poles must be reached in order to achieve harmony.

Both interpret the human experience through words or non-verbal forms of expression. It’s true that the
arts have more to do with the act of creation itself, whether through performance or the physical
production of works, while the humanities have to do more with research and critical analysis. But it’s
important to be aware that both exist in every department or program (or individual) in the College of
Arts and Humanities.