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We prepare students to live and work in a dramatically changing global environment and provide them with the skills needed to understand the impact of these changes on social justice and the cultural environment.

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World-Renowned Architect Zaha Hadid’s Design Selected for MSU’s Broad Art Museum

Zaha Hadid of London has been selected as the winner in the design competition for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Read more...


Arts and Letters Celebrates Successful Conclusion of The Campaign for MSU

During the five-year Campaign for MSU, which officially ended on September 30, 2007, the College of Arts and Letters raised more than $54 million, far surpassing its goal of $11 million. The college surpassed its endowment
goal of $800,000 with gifts of more than $15 million. Read more...


Language Learning Moves into the Digital Age

Say the word "hybrid" and what may come to mind first is an environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient car. But for students at MSU, it means an innovative blend of traditional classroom instruction and online learning that is changing the way they acquire proficiency in reading, writing and speaking a foreign language. Read more...


Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities

The new major in Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at MSU represents an innovative approach to the study of ethics, justice, language, and culture, emphasizing their inter-connections and situating these studies in relation to the larger world dynamics that have shaped and reconfigured the lived conditions of specific peoples in particular locations, throughout history and in the present. Click here for position descriptions.


Muses Magazine

The Summer/Fall 2006 issue, "Engaging the World," PDF* features the international research and outreach connections of arts and humanities faculty, students, and alumni.


College of Arts and Letters Signature Lecture

2007: Orhan Pamuk


College of Arts and Letters Mission and Vision Statement


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Deogratian Ngonyani

Arts and Letters People and Programs

Shown here: Deogratias Ngonyani, associate professor of morphology, descriptive linguistics, and African languages, is working to preserve Kikisi, a Bantu language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people in four Kisi villages on the northeastern shore of Lake Malawi in Tanzania. Read more >



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