College of Liberal Arts
SOCIAL SCIENCES • HUMANITIES • FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS • EDUCATION
Bring your imagination to life at the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) at the University of New Hampshire. Explore your passions and create your very own path from dozens of majors, minors and graduate programs in the social sciences, humanities, fine and performing arts and education. Immerse yourself in an engaged, innovative community of academic excellence with some of the world’s best faculty leading the way.
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In COLA, you will learn deeply and explore boldly within a collaborative, caring community of thinkers, creators and doers. You’ll connect the dots and put things into a larger context while developing skills that employers want — like critical thinking, complex problem solving and communication. You’ll learn to be creative, nimble and ready to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
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Oct314 p.m. - 4 p.m., October 31 at 4 p.m. in room A-218 in the Paul Creative Arts Center Steven Hill, author of 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy, is a widely published columnist whose op-eds, articles and media interview have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, Democracy Now, BBC, The Atlantic, Politico, Guardian, Wired, The Nation, American Prospect, Le Monde, Die Zeit and more. How Democracies Die/Thrive is a semester-long progr a.m. tha...
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Oct317 p.m. - 7 p.m., A theatrical exploration of the New York Times best-selling book by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. The play, devised by UNH students, will delve into the book’s ex a.m.ination of how we have arrived at this moment in our democracy. As stated in the Wall Street Journal’s review; “The authors argue, with good evidence, that democracies aren’t destroyed because of the impulses of a single man; they are, instead, degraded in the course of a partisan tit for tat dyn a.m.ic that deg...
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Nov112:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., We want to help you get funding to do the work you love! We know that aspects of the process can be both time-consuming and complex to navigate, whether you’re a first time or experienced applicant. To continue supporting faculty in their efforts, we would like to invite you to Demystifying the Grant Process (Workshop and Lunch) To participate, please identify and share a Request for Proposals (RFP) with us beforehand. This RFP could be for something you want to apply fo...