College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU)

1102 Francis Scott Key Hall
301-405-2088
http://www.arhu.umd.edu

College-wide Research Opportunities
Honors Humanities Program
1103 Wicomico Hall
(301) 405-6992
Acting Director, Professor Patrick R. Grzanka: pgrzanka@umd.edu
Program Coordinator, Tanya Jung: tjung@wam.umd.edu

The Honors Humanities program features a living/learning experience, an academically challenging curriculum, and attentive advising by program faculty. The curriculum of Honors Humanities is designed to show how the humanities and arts work--both as knowledge-making disciplines and as venues for significant public action. Participants in the Honors Humanities program complete an individual research project over a period of four semesters.

Departmental Research Opportunities

American Studies Honors Program
Jo Paoletti, Director of Undergraduate Studies
jpaol@umd.edu / 301-405-1354 (main office) or 301-405-6646 (direct)

Participants in the American Studies Honors Program prepare for graduate study or a professional career by completing an independent research project of their own design, in consultation with a faculty mentor. Students are encouraged to make use of the rich resources of the Washington-Baltimore area, including major research institutions such as the Smithsonian Institutions, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives.

Art History and Archeology Honors Program
Dr. Renee Ater, Director of Undergraduate Studies
rater@umd.edu/(301) 405-1490

In addition to completing major requirements and enrolling in two Honors-specific courses, participants in the Art History and Archeology Honors Program are mentored by faculty members as they complete an Honors Thesis. By writing an Honors thesis, students are able to design and complete their own independent research projects.

Communications Honors Program
Leah Waks, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Skinner 2101B
leahwaks@wam.umd.edu / 301-405-6529

The Honors Program provides superior students with the utmost opportunity for intensive study of Communication at an advanced level. The program provides participants with opportunities to deepen their understanding of the discipline through graduate level coursework and to enrich this understanding through closely supervised research and intimate involvement in the intellectual life of the department.

English Honors Program
Ralph Bauer, Director of English Honors
2115D Susquehanna
bauerr@umd.edu / (301) 405-3797

All participants in the English Honors Program complete a Senior Project-a thesis, a reading project, or (for students who have done extremely well in the department's creative writing workshops) a creative writing project. Beginning in the second semester of the junior year, students select their topics, arrange a faculty director, and begin work on their projects.

French Honors Program
Lauretta Clough
lcclough@umd.edu /(301)405-4034
Students may choose to do a departmental honors version of the French Language, Literature & Culture major. In addition to rigorous coursework, participants complete an Honors Thesis. This faculty-supervised research project results in the production of a twenty-five page paper, which is defended in front of a faculty committee.

Germanic Studies Honors Program
Elke Frederiksen
3211 Jimenez
ef4@umd.edu / (301) 405-4107

Honors students in this program design a course of study that meets their educational interests and goals. In addition to honors-specific coursework, students attend events at the Goethe Institute and the Austrian, German, Danish, Swedish, and Swiss Embassies.Participation in the Program culminates in an Honors Thesis, which each student plans in consultation with a faculty advisor, who will direct the thesis.

History Honors Program
Art Eckstein
2134 Taliaferro
ameckst1@umd.edu / (301)405-4301

The Program is a four-semester sequence, which culminates in a senior thesis--a major research paper of 80 pages or more, written under the close supervision of a faculty mentor. There are two phases to the program: in the junior year, students are introduced to the problems of history-writing at a sophisticated level, via two seminars on problems of historiography; in the senior year they recieve two supervised courses in the writing of the major paper.

Philosophy Honors Program
S. Jack Odell, Director of the Honors Program
1120A Skinner
sjodell@umd.edu / (301) 405-5844

Participants in the Philosophy Honors program complete the standard Philosophy major, also complete 6 credit hours of independent study over two consecutive semesters. The independent study results in the production of an Honors Thesis under the supervision of a faculty member. All students who complete Honors Theses are examined orally by a panel of three faculty members.

Spanish Honors Program
Regina Igel, Honors Director
2211 Jimenez
ri@umd.edu / (301) 405 6457

The Spanish Honors Program gives majors an opportunity to gain experience in research, writing, and working on individual projects tailored to each student's interests and talents. Students from all Spanish major options are encouraged to apply to the Spanish Honors Program. Honors students work on an individual basis with a faculty mentor. In combination with major requirements, students in the Spanish Honors Program must take a minimum of two upper-division Spanish Honors courses and enroll in six credits of thesis research.

Women's Studies Honors Program
Laura Nichols
llnichols@umd.edu / (301) 405-6827

The Honors Program in the Department of Women's Studies gives students the opportunity to pursue rigorous interdisciplinary research and writing under the close supervision and mentorship of a Women's Studies faculty member. In addition to completing Honors-specific coursework, participants complete an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty mentor.

Additional Research Opportunities

Art Gallery
theartgallery@umd.edu / (301) 405-2763

Interns at the Art Gallery work with a faculty mentor and may earn 3-6 credits. Students complete a learning proposal that specifies their research interests. Most students work between 8-12 hours a week for 16 weeks. If internships start later in the semester, students are able to make up hours either as they go or at the beginning of the following semester.

Art Gilner Center for Humor Studies
humorcenter@yahoo.com

The Art Gilner Center for Humor Studies offers two Internship grants of up to $2500 each for proposals that will match graduate students (and possibly undergraduates) with mentors to work on training that will lead to socially useful applications of humor. The Center solicits proposals from all disciplines, in all areas of social life, in which humor might be employed with a positive effect.