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.
Think it sounds amazing? It is.
Find your Future in the College of Liberal Arts
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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What Does Pope Francis’s Death Mean for Catholics and Catholicism?
What Does Pope Francis’s Death Mean for Catholics and Catholicism?
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UNH Student Awarded Prestigious Graduate Fellowship
UNH Student Awarded Prestigious Graduate Fellowship
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Our Superpower
Undergraduate research turns curiosity and passion into skills and real-world solutions
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Apr238:00pm - 9:00pm
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Apr2412:40pm - 2:00pm, Please join us in welcoming Dr. Emily Liquin, Asst. Prof. Psychology who will present “How curiosity and satisfaction guide explanatory inquiry” in the last of our Spring Colloquia series this semester.
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Apr245:00pm - 6:00pm, MFA Writing Thesis ReadingThursday, April 24, 2025Hamilton Smith, 2105pm