The
Humanities Department offers majors in Communication,
English, Hispanic and Latino Studies as well as minors in Gender
Studies, Writing, Philosophy, and Applied and Professional
Ethics. These
majors all foster the development of problem-solving
strategies, communications skills, technological innovation,
and creative
expression within programs that prepare students for
success in fields that include journalism, public relations,
advertising,
teaching, library science, law, medicine, biomedical
ethics, and international business. 
- The Communications program hosts an award-winning student newspaper, The Crestiad, supports a student run radio station, WCCC, and features a TV studio in which students can engage in video production and post-production digital editing.
- The English program sponsors a visiting writers series and supports Preterite, the college’s literary club, and Xi Kappa, the English honorary society. Preterite produces a literary magazine and holds an annual creative writing contest.
- Students in this department have interned for Radio America in Washington, D.C., PBS Channel 39, Two Sides Television in London, England, The Easton Express-Times, and Rodale Press. The first woman ever to win the nationally competitive internship at Sony Music Entertainment in Japan came from this department.
- Students have presented their scholarly and creative work in national and regional venues, including the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations convention, the Northeast Modern Language Association convention, the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities Undergraduate Conference, the Pennsylvania College English Association Conference, and the LVAIC Undergraduate Conference in Women’s Studies.
- Department faculty are recognized in their fields and present their work at national and international conferences; they have published their scholarly and creative work in such venues as Film and History, The Chaucer Review, Dickens Studies Annual, The Seattle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The International Herald Tribune. Victorian Prose: An Anthology, co-edited by a member of the department, is used in college classrooms nationwide.