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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.
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 exciting, 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, humanities 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.
Try This Attend the First Look Fair and join a few groups / Start mapping 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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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 student groups. Just imagine all you’ll learn.
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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.
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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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Are you interested in a more intensive learning experience? Get a little closer. Maryland’s highly ranked living and learning programs allow talented undergraduates with shared interests to live in the same residence hall, take courses together and cultivate relationships with faculty mentors.
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Hasan Elahi Associate Professor of Art / director, Digital Cultures and Creativity
Vincent Harrington Communication
An internationally known artist in the digital
An aspiring lobbyist, Vincent
humanities, Hasan loves the energy and
hopes to give a voice in D.C. to
exchange of ideas borne of living and learning
those without one: children, the
communities. They’re intimate. They’re rigor-
elderly and veterans. His ARHU
ous. And they draw talented students from
experience is getting him started.
all kinds of backgrounds. “When you bring
On campus, he’s honing his public
all these people together,” he says, “amazing
speaking skills. In Annapolis, he’s
things happen.”
advocated for state legislation
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 investigate human experience, thought, expression and creativity. 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.
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banning smoking in vehicles carrying children. And in the nation’s capital, he’s interned for two members of Congress. He’s already going far—without going far.
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Be WorldWise
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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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Are you interested in a more intensive learning experience? Get a little closer. Maryland’s highly ranked living and learning programs allow talented undergraduates with shared interests to live in the same residence hall, take courses together and cultivate relationships with faculty mentors.
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Hasan Elahi Associate Professor of Art / director, Digital Cultures and Creativity
Vincent Harrington Communication
An internationally known artist in the digital
An aspiring lobbyist, Vincent
humanities, Hasan loves the energy and
hopes to give a voice in D.C. to
exchange of ideas borne of living and learning
those without one: children, the
communities. They’re intimate. They’re rigor-
elderly and veterans. His ARHU
ous. And they draw talented students from
experience is getting him started.
all kinds of backgrounds. “When you bring
On campus, he’s honing his public
all these people together,” he says, “amazing
speaking skills. In Annapolis, he’s
things happen.”
advocated for state legislation
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 investigate human experience, thought, expression and creativity. 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.
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banning smoking in vehicles carrying children. And in the nation’s capital, he’s interned for two members of Congress. He’s already going far—without going far.
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Be WorldWise
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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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Are you interested in a more intensive learning experience? Get a little closer. Maryland’s highly ranked living and learning programs allow talented undergraduates with shared interests to live in the same residence hall, take courses together and cultivate relationships with faculty mentors.
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Hasan Elahi Associate Professor of Art / director, Digital Cultures and Creativity
Vincent Harrington Communication
An internationally known artist in the digital
An aspiring lobbyist, Vincent
humanities, Hasan loves the energy and
hopes to give a voice in D.C. to
exchange of ideas borne of living and learning
those without one: children, the
communities. They’re intimate. They’re rigor-
elderly and veterans. His ARHU
ous. And they draw talented students from
experience is getting him started.
all kinds of backgrounds. “When you bring
On campus, he’s honing his public
all these people together,” he says, “amazing
speaking skills. In Annapolis, he’s
things happen.”
advocated for state legislation
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 investigate human experience, thought, expression and creativity. 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.
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banning smoking in vehicles carrying children. And in the nation’s capital, he’s interned for two members of Congress. He’s already going far—without going far.
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Be WorldWise
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Ryan Heisinger History / English
We’re committed to extending your education 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.
Ryan says his ARHU experience helped him discover himself. He organized basketball and “roller-dodgeball” games at two urban elementary schools, spent a spring break roofing three homes with Habitat for
Carrie Hildebrandt Arabic studies
Humanity and ran a school-supply drive for Teach for America—which he’s considering joining before going to grad school. Now
Carrie’s so passionate about putting her
that’s a global citizen in the making.
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.
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.
Ruth Watkins Theatre / Marketing Ruth 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.
Go global ARHU is dedicated to international education, and our new global engagement requirement offers lively opportunities for cross-cultural learning. Study a foreign 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.
Ryan Heisinger History / English
We’re committed to extending your education 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.
Ryan says his ARHU experience helped him discover himself. He organized basketball and “roller-dodgeball” games at two urban elementary schools, spent a spring break roofing three homes with Habitat for
Carrie Hildebrandt Arabic studies
Humanity and ran a school-supply drive for Teach for America—which he’s considering joining before going to grad school. Now
Carrie’s so passionate about putting her
that’s a global citizen in the making.
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.
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.
Ruth Watkins Theatre / Marketing Ruth 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.
Go global ARHU is dedicated to international education, and our new global engagement requirement offers lively opportunities for cross-cultural learning. Study a foreign 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.
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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Are you interested in a more intensive learning experience? Get a little closer. Maryland’s highly ranked living and learning programs allow talented undergraduates with shared interests to live in the same residence hall, take courses together and cultivate relationships with faculty mentors.
1 3
Hasan Elahi Associate Professor of Art / director, Digital Cultures and Creativity
Vincent Harrington Communication
An internationally known artist in the digital
An aspiring lobbyist, Vincent
humanities, Hasan loves the energy and
hopes to give a voice in D.C. to
exchange of ideas borne of living and learning
those without one: children, the
communities. They’re intimate. They’re rigor-
elderly and veterans. His ARHU
ous. And they draw talented students from
experience is getting him started.
all kinds of backgrounds. “When you bring
On campus, he’s honing his public
all these people together,” he says, “amazing
speaking skills. In Annapolis, he’s
things happen.”
advocated for state legislation
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 investigate human experience, thought, expression and creativity. 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.
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banning smoking in vehicles carrying children. And in the nation’s capital, he’s interned for two members of Congress. He’s already going far—without going far.
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Be WorldWise
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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.
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 consequences of the digital revolution.
Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, a campus literary 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.
Language House gives students who are serious 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.
ARHU also offers departmental honors, a nonresidential experience in the arts and humanities for third- and fourth-year students. Students participate in advanced seminars and independent research in their major.
Try This Use your language skills at a language house coffee hour / Reimagine your world by creating an avatar in Second Life / Tackle a research project / Attend a “Writers Here and Now” reading
Digital Cultures and Creativity, a premier program in the Honors College, brings together art, imagination and global citizenship with new media and technologies in an innovative new curriculum.
What careers do ARHU graduates pursue? Any one they want. An education in the arts and humanities provides the perfect foundation 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 ’01 American Studies After 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 Ian Gross ’10
in Northern California.
Philosophy A 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 international relations back in the U.S.—then return to China to continue working on legal aid development.
Sarah Levitt ’07 Dance Sarah’s a resident artist and communications coordinator at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, choreographing, performing and teaching as well as promoting the professional dance company through press releases, a blog and social media.
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Ashley Faust ’11 Communication While in ARHU, Ashley studied in Spain and scored an internship with Ari Gore ’10
the Washington Wizards. She’s
Arabic Studies /
since landed an account executive
Government and
job with the Wizards and Mystics.
Politics (minor in Middle East Studies) Ari participated in ARHU’s Arabic Flagship Program, and was selected his senior year for the highly competitive U.S. Foreign Service. Now he’s an economics officer posted in Saudi Arabia, working on issues related to
Lida Zlatic ’09
science, technology, health, agricul-
Classics / Art History
ture and the environment.
Lida is a Teach for America corps member in Baltimore while pursuing a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education.
Eric Wrona ’10 English (minor in Spanish Language and Cultures) Eric interned as a senior at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and was hired after graduation as an editorial assistant for the Lexington Books imprint, which publishes academic monographs and edited collections. Maryanna Price ’11 Linguistics (minors in French and German) Maryanna is pursuing a master’s of comparative linguistics and philology at the University of Oxford.
Alex Lambi ’08 Music (minor in Italian, pre-med) Alex has gone on to Temple University, where he’s pursuing a medical degree as well as a doctorate in cellular biology and anatomy.
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majors
Minors
American studies
Ancient Greek language and literature
Arabic studies Art history and archaeology Central European studies Chinese Classics Communication Dance English French Germanic studies History
Arabic studies Art history Black women’s studies Chinese language Classical mythology Creative writing French studies Germanic studies Israel studies
Italian
Italian language and culture
Japanese
Japanese
Jewish studies
Jewish studies
Linguistics
Korean studies
Music
Latin language and literature
Persian studies
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
Philosophy Romance languages Russian Spanish Studio art Theatre Women’s studies
the most up-to-date information, For visit www.arhu.umd.edu.
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.
Learn more about the College of Arts & Humanities. Contact us with questions about degree programs offered by the college or to schedule a personal visit. College of Arts & Humanities University of Maryland 1120 Francis Scott Key Hall College Park, MD 20742 301.405.2096 arhu-admit@umd.edu www.arhu.umd.edu
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