The College of Humanities and the Arts has made significant progress in the last year toward our goal of achieving international distinction for its outstanding programs. It is exciting to note some distinctive accomplishments:
- Our expanded study abroad program enables students to immerse themselves in other cultures while attending courses in China, India, France, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Switzerland and Korea.
- The faculty and students do research designed to integrate Western and Eastern philosophical traditions and interact with intellectual leaders in forums thanks to our new Center for Comparative Philosophy -- the first of its kind in the U.S.
- The establishment of the Center for Human Language Technology enables students to engage in important research..
- Our college proudly sponsors onsite academic conferences of regional, national and international significance. These include: the annual Conference for the California Association of Teachers of English as a Second Language (CATESOL), the Punjabi Studies Poetical Symposium and the upcoming Simone de Beauvoir Conference hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages.
- Our college is the California State University representative for Project Bamboo, which is devoted to building electronic databases that make millions of images and texts specifically affiliated with the humanities and the arts available to students. We are responsible for designing the organizational structure that will allow all 23 CSU campuses to benefit from the consortium databases, expertise and technologies.
- This past year, students and community members interacted with artists and scholars through guest lectures, workshops and master classes. Authors Salman Rushdie and ZZ Packer and the astonishing Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein visited the campus. Spectacularly talented pianists from around the world competed in the Beethoven competition sponsored by our Beethoven Center. Famous theatre artist Luis Valdez guided students in the production of one of his plays.
All of these projects are fundamental to the enhancement of our students' experiences within the college. They promote interdisciplinary learning, global consciousness and heightened awareness of technological innovation in the humanities and the arts.
Karl Toepfer
Dean, College of Humanities and the Arts
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Lorna Corbetta
Director of Development, College of Humanities and the Arts
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