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Academic Excellence: Discover your own path

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FROM YOUR

FIRST YEAR SEMINAR TO YOUR

ST. MARY’S PROJECT The academic offerings and the professors who work with you are part of discovering your own path at St. Mary’s.

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AREAS OF STUDY: MAJORS Anthropology Art Art History Asian Studies Biochemistry Biology Chemistry Computer Science Economics English History International Languages and Cultures Mathematics Music Natural Science Philosophy Physics

Political Science Psychology Public Policy Studies Religious Studies Sociology Student-Designed Theater, Film, and Media Studies

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY African and African Diaspora Studies Asian Studies Democracy Studies Environmental Studies Museum Studies Neurosciences Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

PRE-PROFESSIONAL Pre-Dentistry Pre-Engineering Pre-Law Pre-Medicine Pre-Optometry Pre-Pharmacy Pre-Veterinary Science

TEACHER EDUCATION Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT): BA & MAT: 3-year track (with AA) 4-year track (with some AP credits) 5-year track

For more information please visit: www.smcm.edu/academics/degree-programs.html

“HELP!”

OUR LIBRARIANS CAN DO THAT.

Interact one-on-one with librarians. Working closely with students in and out of the classroom, they can put research materials at your fingertips.

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MEET A FEW OF YOUR

PROFESSORS

St. Mary’s faculty have earned as many Fulbrights as faculty at large universities.

They have served under two U.S. presidents on the President’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. They have studied with Nobel Peace Prize winners, have been poet laureates and “Top Influencers in Maryland Politics.”

These are your professors at St. Mary’s: they teach you, advise you, and mentor you along your academic journey.

Professor of Religious Studies Wrote, “The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators” (Oxford University Press, 2013).

A recognized leader in Jewish-Christian dialogue who explores issues that are ethically and politically sensitive.

Jennifer Cognard-Black

Asif Dowla

Professor of English

Professor of Economics

Fulbright Scholar in Slovenia in Spring 2011

Authored the book, “The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story” (Kumarian Press, 2006).

Co-authored, “Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal” (NYU Press, 2014).

Landers Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts

Earned a 2013 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for her fiction writing.

David Kung Professor of Mathematics His course, “How Music and Math Relate” is offered through the Teaching Company’s Great Courses DVD program.

Director of Mathematical Association of America’s Project NExT program

Charles Holden

Katy Arnett

Professor of History

Associate Professor of Educational Studies

Most recent book, “The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC, 1920-1941” (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012).

Aldom-Plansoen Honors College Professor (2005-2008)

Fulbright Scholar in Canada 2012-2013 Author of “Languages for All: How to Support and Challenge Students in a Second Language Classroom” (Pearson Education Canada, 2013).

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PUT YOUR

LEARNING INTO PRACTICE A customized Core Curriculum enhances active learning: step outside the classroom or campus with an internship or study abroad experience.

Nina Rabin ’13 spent a semester as a legislative intern in Annapolis. Now she’s studying law in San Diego.

WHAT’S AN SMP? An SMP (St. Mary’s Project) is a senior-year, two-semester capstone experience that allows you to choose the topic of study, conduct the research and analysis, and present the results.

SMPs are as individual as the students creating them—a published paper on

chloroplast movement, a documentary on politics and music in urban Mexico City, or the affordable housing crisis in Southern Maryland—but they often serve as a gateway for students from college to graduate school or real-world careers.

FROM RESEARCH AT ST. MARY’S TO

REAL-WORLD OPPORTUNITIES Jordan Gaines Lewis ’11 Majored in biology and is now a neuroscience doctoral candidate at Penn State College of Medicine. A prolific science writer and blogger (gainesonbrains.com), she is a “young science writer to watch” pick by Scientific American.

Rebecca Prasher ’12 Combined physics and computer modeling in her St. Mary’s Project to create a 3-D shipbuilding model of a 17th-century vessel.

She went on to crew aboard a sailing ship in the South Seas and is now aboard the U.S. Brig Niagara. She has her 100-ton captain’s license and a 200-ton deckhand license.

Stephon Dingle ’12 Majored in history and was a DeSousa-Brent Scholar at St. Mary’s. He completed the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 2013. Is now a TV news journalist for CBS19 in Charlottesville, Va.

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WHATEVER IT TAKES

TO GET TO YOUR

DESTINATION Whatever your path, St. Mary’s helps get you to your destination. Explore one major or three, a self-designed major, minors, research, internships, service learning, study abroad, or all of the above!

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PREPARE YOURSELF Nick Branigan ’02 Software engineer for Microsoft, working on the Bing team Dakim Gaines ’09 Studying to be a physician/scientist at Rutgers University – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

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A liberal arts education prepares you for a world of possibilities. Look what these St. Mary’s graduates have done...

Elizabeth Graves ’95 Editor-in-chief, Martha Stewart Weddings Jessica Wolfley ’03 Director of digital strategy at Discovery Communications, whose team won an Emmy for Discovery Channel’s “Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda”

DID YOU KNOW...

In its one-year-out alumni survey, the Class of 2012 says: 89% of those who went on to graduate or professional school feel that St. Mary’s prepared them well 62% of those seeking full-time employment found it within one year in a field related to their major

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