Since humanities accomplishment is necessary for creative activities and social life, learning about humanities could be more important than other else. The studying of humanities has been subdivided to several fields from the past. The humanities shows its power obviously when its subdivided fields merged with many parts of the society and got developed. With an overview of the whole humanities curricula from the past, we found out that literature, history and philosophy can be the indications of humanities. In this paper, we focus on the history and philosophy, especially on the curricula of universities, to review the changes and developments of them. Modern humanities curricula have changed greatly. The graduates of subdivided humanities curricula got much more job opportunities. But the weakness is biasing towards inculcation of knowledge. Because the higher education in modern times must focus on the students' future, it seems that would be very difficult to choose between doing pure academic and preparing for career, so does the education of humanities. There are a wide range of majors opened in universities for the training of the human resources needed in our society. Humanities is the most important filed which can develop critical , creative, comprehensive thinkings and enrich our lives. We look forward to seeing the effective education of humanities.