Undergraduate & Graduate Education

Degrees Conferred: 1,288 B.A, 117 M.A. 87 Ph.D.

New Degree Programs

■ B.A., Film Studies ■ M.P.S. & Graduate Certificate, Translation & Interpretation ■ M.A. & Graduate Certificate, Second Language Acquisition ■ M.A. in Spanish will add a Hispanic Linguistics track Profile:

Annie Gagliardi ’12 in Linguistics was awarded a

NSF/NEH funded

postdoc fellowship to document endangered languages at Harvard this fall.

Graduate Placements

■ University of Virginia, Dan Sender, assistant professor of Violin ■ Université du Québec à Montréal, Geneviève Pagé, assistant* professor of Women’s Studies ■ National Gallery of Art, Adam Greenhalgh, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow ■ Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Maria Gigante, assistant professor of English* ■ U.S. Department of Agriculture, Kelly McGovern, writer-editor ■ Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, associate professor of English linguistics* ■ University of West Virginia, Kimberly Welch, assistant professor of history* ■ UMD’s Center for the Advanced Study of Language, Karen Vatz, assistant research scientist ■ Princeton University, Álvaro Enrigue, research fellow ■ University of Massachusetts Boston, Lin Zhu, assistant professor of communication*

*Indicates tenure track General Education (CORE)

ARHU

ARHU is home to five living and learning programs: 1. Digital Cultures and Creativity 2. Honors College 3. Language House 4. College Park Scholars Arts 5. Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House

University of Maryland

30% of all seats for the university’s general education program were offered by ARHU.

Scholarship in Practice (SIP) Only four internship courses have been approved university wide for the new SIP requirement, including courses in communication, English and a college sponsored course. Profile:

Jenny Wang ’12, an English and Physiology and Neurobiology major, was awarded the 2012 University Medalist for outstanding achievements inside and outside of the classroom. A BannekerKey Scholar, she maintained a 4.0 GPA while serving as a teaching assistant, launching a student research journal, and volunteering in a local emergency room. Next, Jenny plans to attend medical school.

■ Members of the SOM’s Graduate Fellowship String Quartet, Aeolus Quartet, won silver at the Fischoff Competition, the nation’s largest chamber music competition. ■ Julie Enszer in WMST received a 2012 Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies and was named an Ostriker Fellow.

Profile: I-Series course Breaking News: Contemporary Literature, Media, and the State challenges students to decode text and images in literature, media and film to investigate big questions about history and the bitter divisions of race, gender, religion, nationality and class.

Additional Student Achievements

■ Maryam Elbalghiti in SLLC was awarded an Erik B. Young, M.D. International Travel-Study Award for Undergraduates. ■ A team of COMM undergraduates finished third in PRSA’s Bateman Public Relations Case Competition. (More than 70 teams around the country participated.) ■ Rachel Jablon in JWST was awarded the Provost’s GA of the Year Award.

Profile: Alene Moyer, associate professor of Germanic Studies, was appointed associate dean for academic affairs in the college. She oversees undergraduate and graduate curriculum and programs; graduate student recruitment, fellowships and student advisory board; ARHU’s five living and learning programs and the Learning Outcomes Assessment process.