I would like to welcome you to the exciting College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. Through its various programs, the College aims to help students become both concerned citizens and employable graduates. College faculty educate students in skills they can use not only in their first job after graduation but throughout their lives. By helping our students develop excellent oral and written communication and critical thinking skills, the College enables them to pursue a wide variety of paths to knowledge and careers. We offer specialized study in fields as diverse as foreign languages, literature, classics, studies of cultures from all over the world, applied linguistics, religious studies, and creative writing.
Faculty in all disciplines of the College produce scholarship and creative works that achieve national recognition. They engage in research that is published by key scholarly journals and university presses, supported by national and international grants and foundations, and presented at major scholarly conferences. Our professors are excellent teachers as well as researchers, as indicated by the College’s number of Regents’ professors, distinguished professors, 5-star teaching awardees, and Koffler Prize winners (please see “The College at a Glance”).
The College seeks to develop each individual's ability to communicate effectively and to analyze critically the foundations upon which cultural perceptions are built. In our programs in languages (including, of course, English), literatures, cultures, and other areas of the humanities, we help students to explore works of human imagination and intellect from around the world, and to exercise their own minds creatively. Developing transcultural communication and understanding is the connecting thread for all of our endeavors.
Another hallmark of the College is the interdisciplinary nature of our research and teaching. We want to contribute to understandings of and solutions to real-world problems, which do not always fit into neat institutional categories. Both students and faculty are encouraged and supported as they cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, like English or Japanese language studies, for example, to include studies of film, religious traditions, or to work with colleagues in other colleges, like psychologists or anthropologists, to expand our ways of knowing and learning about the world we live in. These interdisciplinary programs are unlike anything you will find at a traditional liberal arts school.
With the insights and advances gained by re-examining enduring questions of interpretation, criticism, critical thinking and transcultural understanding, and supported by the exciting world of digital technology, the College looks toward a future of continued achievements and distinction. We invite you to browse the websites of our departments and programs to learn more about us. We welcome your engagement with our mission and goals. Most of all, we hope you will join with us – as student, colleague, benefactor, or interested visitor - in a continuing effort to refine and sustain the unique contributions of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona.
If we can answer questions or provide more information, please don't hesitate to contact us by e-mailing cohinfo@u.arizona.edu
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