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The University of Arizona ranks among the top 10 universities in the nation for producing graduates with foreign language degrees.
3 months ago
After years spent in hard-to-find offices – converted old houses on Helen Street and then upstairs in the Geronimo building in Main Gate Square – the Writing Skills Improvement Program has relocated to the heart of campus.     Now on the first floor...
3 months ago
Classroom teachers across the state can enroll in free Humanities Seminars Program courses through a scholarship program that seeks to expand opportunities for educators.  
3 months ago
Typically, global philanthropy and development have operated according to a top-down model, often unresponsive to actual community needs and ideas.    With a project designed to reorient that focus to one more responsive to community needs, Jasmine...
3 months ago
Kelsi Vanada, program director of the American Literary Translators Association, is one of 18 translators selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive a Literature Translation Fellowship.  
4 months ago
Excellence breeds excellence, or so the saying goes. In Tucson, perhaps Qualität bedingt Qualität is more appropriate.  
COH Outstanding Senior: Alexandra Doe
4 months ago
Congratulations to the College of Humanities’ Outstanding Senior for Winter 2023, Alexandra Doe!   Doe is graduating Magna Cum Laude with a dual degree, a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in Physiology and Medical Sciences, plus a minor in Sports...
4 months ago
Dorrance Dean Alain-Philippe Durand is pleased to announce the recipients of the College of Humanities 2023 Helen H. Chatfield Awards.  
4 months ago
Two College of Humanities seniors are the recipients of the Centennial Achievement Undergraduate Awards.  
5 months ago
Listen to a global hip-hop playlist curated College of Humanities faculty, on YouTube or Apple Music.   
5 months ago
Interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist and entrepreneur Favianna Rodriguez was selected as the 2023 Dorrance Dean’s Scholar/Specialist-in-Residence.  
5 months ago
The Center for East Asian Studies has received a federal grant to fund a summer Chinese language immersion program designed for high school students and college freshmen and sophomores.  
5 months ago
Even for a physician, the humanities is a lifelong journey, according to Dr. Ross Schwartzberg.   As a University of Arizona undergraduate student with his sights set on medical school, Ross Schwartzberg carved out space in his schedule to follow...
5 months ago
As a true “voice for the voiceless,” and a bilingual one at that, Jessie Bustamante has dedicated her career to being an advocate, supporter and fundraiser for individuals who have disabilities.  
7 months ago
The College of Humanities has created a new scholarship that will award 30 students $2,000 each for study abroad programs.  
7 months ago
What began as a course in "Spanish for the Spanish Speaking" in the fall of 1965 has grown into the oldest and most extensive Spanish as a Heritage Language program in the country.