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The College of Arts & Humanities

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College of Arts & HumanitiesUniversity of Maryland1120 Francis Scott Key HallCollege Park, MD 20742301.405.2096arhu-admit@umd.eduwww.arhu.umd.edu

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EXPLORE YOUR PASSION, BROADEN YOUR

MIND AND EMBRACE YOUR ROLE IN THE

WORLD. DO ALL THIS AND MORE IN THE

COLLEGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES. // WE

STUDY CULTURES PAST AND PRESENT,

INVESTIGATE THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

AND DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING AND

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATING. // AT OUR

CORE, WE VALUE IMAGINATION AND

CREATIVITY, DIVERSITY AND GLOBAL

UNDERSTANDING. WE EMPOWER STUDENTS

TO READ, WRITE AND DISCUSS, AND TO

EXPLORE THE MEANING OF LIFE. // OUR

UNDERGRADUATES LEAVE HERE PREPARED

FOR A WIDE RANGE OF CAREERS AND

READY TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITIES AND

THE LARGER SOCIETY. // CONSIDER WHAT

AN ARHU EDUCATION CAN OPEN YOU TO.

TAKE THE CHALLENGE. BE WORLDWISE.

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ARHU students get all the perks of a national research university as well as the tight-knit feel of a small liberal arts college. We foster that sense of community through orientation, shared first-year courses, personal advising and peer mentoring. Our classes are small, and our accomplished faculty members are readily accessible. We’ll encourage you to pursue your passions in departmental clubs and honor societies, as well as a variety of cultural, literary, religious, historical and creative arts stu-dent groups. Just imagine all you’ll learn.

e live in a fast-changing, complex

and often puzzling world. The

experience students get in the

University of Maryland’s College of Arts &

Humanities provides the insight, skills and

knowledge to take it all on. We offer excit-

ing, challenging opportunities in and out

of the classroom: learn to speak German;

intern at the Smithsonian; perform in a

Shakespeare play; travel to Chile or Israel to

study the people and cultures; or volunteer in

D.C. with a women’s health advocacy group.

Our renowned faculty, including Emmy and

Tony winners, are exploring the frontiers of

emerging fields like digital humanities. Our

unbeatable location just outside Washington,

D.C., provides endless research and career

options. Whether you major in arts, humani-

ties or an area of interdisciplinary study, you’ll

deepen your understanding and develop a

set of experiences that prepare you for the

competitive global workforce, and more

importantly, for lifelong learning.

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OUT YOUR ACADEMIC PLAN IN UNIV 101 / SEEK OUT CONVERSATION WITH STUDENTS

WHOSE IDEAS AND BACKGROUND DIFFER FROM YOURS / GET TO KNOW YOUR ACADEMIC

ADVISOR / VOLUNTEER WITH A UMD COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING PROGRAM

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The College of Arts & Humanities, ideally situated between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, offers fantastic cultural, research and career opportunities. Our partnerships with the National Gallery of Art, National Archives, Folger Shakespeare Library and Theatre, Library of Congress and more mean your dream internship is just minutes away.

VINCENT HARRINGTONCOMMUNICATIONAn aspiring lobbyist, Vincent

hopes to give a voice in D.C. to

those without one: children, the

elderly and veterans. His ARHU

experience is getting him started.

On campus, he’s honing his public

speaking skills. In Annapolis, he’s

advocated for state legislation

banning smoking in vehicles car-

rying children. And in the nation’s

capital, he’s interned for two mem-

bers of Congress. He’s already

going far—without going far.

CULTURE ON CAMPUS 1 THOUGHT-PROVOKING EXHIBITS IN

THE ART GALLERY / 2 VISUAL CULTURE IN THE MICHELLE SMITH

COLLABORATORY, WITH ITS 22-FOOT-LONG, IMAX-LIKE SCREEN /

3 NEARLY 1,000 EVENTS A YEAR HOSTED AT THE CLARICE SMITH

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER / 4 AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART AND

CULTURE AT THE DAVID DRISKELL CENTER

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Understanding the world around us past and present as well as near and far is essential to a well-rounded education and a meaningful life. In ARHU, we inspire and challenge you to be worldwise in the many senses of that word. Open yourself to the stimulating courses and many other learning opportunities that can help you creatively explore history, culture and the arts. Your unique experiences in the college will help you define or refine your values, beliefs and sense of purpose. It will shape the kind of global citizen you can be.

BEWORLDWISE

RUTH WATKINSTHEATRE / MARKETINGRuth traveled to China over

the summer with three faculty

members to prepare for a

unique staging of “A Midsummer

Night’s Dream,” featuring actors

from Maryland and the Shanghai Opera

Company. She researched the logistics

of the two-country production with

faculty mentors, and is using what she

learned to prepare for the opening show

both in China and on campus. That kind

of opportunity deserves a standing O.

RYAN HEISINGERHISTORY / ENGLISHRyan says his ARHU experience helped

him discover himself. He organized basket-

ball and “roller-dodgeball” games at two

urban elementary schools, spent a spring

break roofing three homes with Habitat for

Humanity and ran a school-supply drive for

Teach for America—which he’s considering

joining before going to grad school. Now

that’s a global citizen in the making.

CARRIE HILDEBRANDTARABIC STUDIES Carrie’s so passionate about putting her

academics into practice that she traveled

to Morocco her freshman year—twice. She

immersed herself in the culture, living with

a host family, cooking local dishes and

learning the local Arabic dialect. She

took language classes in the morning,

and in the afternoon, she could

use her newest words to barter

in open-air markets. That’s

education on location.

We’re committed to extending your educa-tion beyond the classroom. We offer special opportunities such as research with faculty, internships, study abroad and service-learning experiences. Read how these ARHU students are exploring their passions, discovering their purpose and feeding their creativity.

GO GLOBALARHU is committed to international edu-cation, and our new global engagement requirement offers lively opportunities for cross-cultural learning. Study a for-eign language right on campus. Travel abroad and take language courses while staying in a local home. Experience an internship overseas. Use your creativity to customize your experience.

ARHU-SPONSORED EDUCATION ABROAD

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

BEIJING, CHINA

BERLIN, GERMANY

DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN

NICE, FRANCE

SEVILLE, SPAIN

For more information about programs and scholarships, visit www.international.umd.edu/studyabroad.

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HASAN ELAHIASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART / DIRECTOR, DIGITAL CULTURES AND CREATIVITYAn internationally known artist in the digital

humanities, Hasan loves the energy and

exchange of ideas borne of living and learning

communities. They’re intimate. They’re rigor-

ous. And they draw talented students from

all kinds of backgrounds. “When you bring

all these people together,” he says, “amazing

things happen.”

ARHU also offers departmental honors, a non-residential experience in the arts and humanities for third- and fourth-year students. Students participate in advanced seminars and indepen-dent research in their major.

Honors Humanities, another selective program in the Honors College, allows top students with a passion for the humanities and creative arts to take on important questions—such as the meaning of citizenship, the purpose of art and the conse-quences of the digital revolution.

Digital Cultures and Creativity, a premier program in the Honors College, brings together art, imagi-nation and global citizenship with new media and technologies in an innovative new curriculum.

College Park Scholars in the Arts attracts the university’s most creative performers, artists, designers and photographers, who benefit from a range of arts workshops and explorations in the larger Maryland community.

Language House gives students who are seri-ous about studying another language daily cultural immersion in an organized, shared learning environment. Residents focus on one of the following 10 languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Russian or Spanish.

Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, a campus liter-ary center for creative writing across cultures and languages, draws students who share an interest in creating stories, poems and plays, attending readings and learning from visiting writers.

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What careers do ARHU graduates pursue? Any one they want. An education in the arts and humanities provides the perfect foun-dation for a variety of career paths because it stresses so many assets that employers want: oral and written communication; analytical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills; and flexibility. Couple that with the experience students get through research, internships and other special experiences, and it’s no surprise that ARHU alumni go on to graduate school and successful careers in all kinds of fields. Among them: education, government, marketing, arts management, the media, publishing, museums and libraries, medicine, law, business and nonprofits.

Don’t take our word for it. Meet a few of our recent graduates:

MILLIE YAN ’01AMERICAN STUDIESAfter ARHU, Millie worked as an

ACLU paralegal in New York and

Baltimore. Now she’s completed

her law degree and is an attorney

for a homeless prevention program

in Northern California.IAN GROSS ’10PHILOSOPHYA Fulbright Scholar, Ian is researching

legal aid clinics and studying law in

Wuhan, China. He plans to finish his

J.D. and earn a master’s in interna-

tional relations back in the U.S.—then

return to China to continue working

on legal aid development.

SARAH LEVITT ’07DANCESarah’s a resident artist and com-

munications coordinator at the Liz

Lerman Dance Exchange, choreo-

graphing, performing and teaching

as well as promoting the profes-

sional dance company through press

releases, a blog and social media.

ARI GORE ’10ARABIC STUDIES / GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS (MINOR IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES)Ari participated in ARHU’s Arabic

Flagship Program, and was selected

his senior year for the highly competi-

tive U.S. Foreign Service. Now he’s

an economics officer posted in Saudi

Arabia, working on issues related to

science, technology, health, agricul-

ture and the environment.

ALEX LAMBI ’08MUSIC (MINOR IN ITALIAN, PRE-MED)Alex has gone on to Temple

University, where he’s pursuing a

medical degree as well as a doctor-

ate in cellular biology and anatomy.

MARYANNA PRICE ’11LINGUISTICS (MINORS IN FRENCH AND GERMAN)Maryanna is pursuing a master’s of

comparative linguistics and philology

at the University of Oxford.

LIDA ZLATIC ’09CLASSICS / ART HISTORYLida is a Teach for America

corps member in Baltimore

while pursuing a graduate

degree from the Johns Hopkins

University School of Education.

ASHLEY FAUST ’11COMMUNICATIONWhile in ARHU, Ashley studied in

Spain and scored an internship with

the Washington Wizards. She’s

since landed an account executive

job with the Wizards and Mystics.

ERIC WRONA ’10ENGLISH (MINOR IN SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURES)Eric interned as a senior at Rowman

& Littlefield Publishers and was hired

after graduation as an editorial assis-

tant for the Lexington Books imprint,

which publishes academic mono-

graphs and edited collections.

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AMERICAN STUDIES

ARABIC STUDIES

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

CENTRAL EUROPEAN STUDIES

CHINESE

CLASSICS

COMMUNICATION

DANCE

ENGLISH

FRENCH

GERMANIC STUDIES

HISTORY

ITALIAN

JAPANESE

JEWISH STUDIES

LINGUISTICS

MUSIC

PERSIAN STUDIES

PHILOSOPHY

ROMANCE LANGUAGES

RUSSIAN

SPANISH

STUDIO ART

THEATRE

WOMEN’S STUDIES

MAJORS

ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

ARABIC STUDIES

ART HISTORY

BLACK WOMEN’S STUDIES

CHINESE LANGUAGE

CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

CREATIVE WRITING

FRENCH STUDIES

GERMANIC STUDIES

ISRAEL STUDIES

ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

JAPANESE

JEWISH STUDIES

KOREAN STUDIES

LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

LINGUISTICS

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

MUSIC PERFORMANCE

PERSIAN STUDIES

PHILOSOPHY

PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE, LITERATURES AND CULTURES

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

RHETORIC

RUSSIAN STUDIES

SPANISH LANGUAGE, BUSINESS AND CULTURES

SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURES

U.S. LATINA/O STUDIES

MINORS

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.—MAHATMA GANDHI (Indian philosopher, 1869–1948)

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Muppet maker Jim Henson, a 1960 ARHU graduate, started his career in puppetry while a student here. His legacy of creativity and innovation still thrives in the college.