The humanities experimental class of Xiamen University consists of four departments: Chinese Department, History Department, Philosophy Department and Anthropology Department. Among them, the philosophy department needs to study logical mathematics, and some Chinese majors in science and engineering universities also need to study mathematics in order to cultivate students' thinking ability. In short, whether the humanities experimental class learns mathematics depends on the professional direction.

The experimental class of humanities is an experimental class set up by some colleges and universities to adapt to the development of modern science to interdisciplinary and marginal disciplines and the demand of society for wide-caliber and compound talents, and to cultivate senior professionals with solid basic theoretical knowledge, integration of ancient and modern times, integration of Chinese and foreign countries, rich spirit of "three innovations" and enterprising consciousness, strong ability of independent research, analysis and problem solving, and good foreign language, computer application and written expression.