Humanities

Overview of the HUMSS Strand

The HUMSS track in senior year of high school is meant to efficiently equip students who wish to pursue a liberal arts college degree. Courses in HUMSS examine the world and its inhabitants from a number of perspectives and cover a wide range of topics. The learning exercises are geared on fostering critical thinking.

In addition to focusing on enhancing your oral communication, media, and information skills, HUMSS will refine your reading and writing abilities to a professional level. Because the HUMSS strand is designed for students interested in jobs in the social sciences, it will include a great deal of study and presentation, so preparing them for future careers as journalists, attorneys, teachers, politicians, writers, and psychologists.

Get to Know HUMSS Strand

Specialization in a track and strand is one of the most critical decisions kids entering senior high school must make. The present K-12 curriculum allows kids to specialize in tracks (further subdivided into strands) that will lead and facilitate their college journeys.

One of these tracks is HUMSS, or Humanities and Social Sciences.

What is HUMSS?

Humanities and Social Sciences is a branch of the Academics track offered to senior high school students. The HUMSS Senior High School track is designed for students who aspire to enroll in college-level journalism, communication arts, liberal arts, education, and other social science-related courses. The Senior High School HUMSS track emphasizes the development of students’ reading, writing, and oral communication abilities due to the heavy emphasis on interpersonal interactions.

A prevalent misperception about the Senior High School HUMSS strand is that it is significantly easier than other tracks and strands, or that students enrolled in this strand do not need to study as diligently as those enrolled in other strands (especially those in the Academic track). Although HUMSS does not require as much Math and computation as ABM or STEM, it is by no means “less difficult.”

HUMSS is largely research-based and requires students to read, compose, and deliver several papers during senior year of high school. Students will be exposed to enlightening topics such as world religions, Philippine and international literature, political and community development specialized courses, and more.