schools and colleges
selected programs
Art, literature, music, and the humanities play a huge role in the lives of Michigan's campus community. Listed below are a selection of some of the special programs and organizations that support the arts.
To add or amend a program description please email the webmaster and we’ll post it.
For course information, please follow the links below to individual schools and colleges.
schools and colleges
Architecture and Urban Planning
website: http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/
Art & Design
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
website:
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/
Literature, Science, and the Arts
website:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/home/
School of Music
website:
http://www.music.umich.edu/
For a complete list of all 19 U-M schools and colleges, please visit the U-M information page at www.umich.edu/units.html
selected programs
The Institute for the Humanities serve as a national and international centerpiece for scholarly research in the humanities and creative work in the arts at U-M. The program exists to deepen synergies between the humanities, the arts and other regions of the university, to carry forward the heritage of the humanities, and to bring the voices of the humanities to public life.
The Institute supports research in the humanities through a variety of residential fellowships: Michigan Faculty Fellowships, Michigan Graduate Student Fellowships, and Visiting Fellowships.
Arts at Michigan is a clearinghouse that provides arts opportunities to students and supports student arts organizations. The program exists to integrate arts and culture into the undergraduate experience by:
- increasing student access to the arts
- serving as an informational resource
- supporting students’ creative talent and arts initiatives, and
- promoting arts as a tool for learning
Read more about Arts at Michigan, and check their events calendar, on their website…
Part of the Department of English, the New England Literature Program (NELP) is a U-M academic program that takes place off campus during the Spring half-term. U-M faculty and other staff teach the courses, and students earn regular U-M credit.
The program takes place at Camp Wohelo on Sebago Lake in Maine. For 6 weeks, 40 students and 12 staff members live and work together closely, reading New England authors, writing, and exploring the New England countryside, its people, culture, and history.
The Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies is a new, cross-disciplinary initiative established to explore the inner dimensions of the creative process and involves colleague from fields as diverse as engineering, music, art, business, law, education, biology, psychology, creative writing, communications, and athletics.
Read the U-M News Service press release…
The Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters is a regional professional organization that facilitates scholarly exchange through annual meetings and a quarterly journal of outstanding papers and news about research at Michigan colleges and universities.
Over half of the Academy’s current members are faculty and graduate students of supporting Michigan colleges and universities. Others include independent scholars, scholars from other states, and people engaged in relevant research in business and government. Membership is open to all.
The American Classical League was founded in 1919 for the purpose of fostering the study of classical languages in the United States and Canada. Membership is open to any person who is committed to the preservation and advancement of our classical inheritance from Greece and Rome.
The League includes teachers of Latin, Greek, and Classics on elementary, secondary, and college levels. The League celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1994.
Read more about the American Classical League on their website…
Eighteenth Century England is an ongoing, collaborative project by U-M students studying 18th-century literature, led by Associate Professor David Porter. Students in his classes to work in small groups to write and design a set of webpages that explores some aspect of life and culture in 18th-century England.
Visit the Eighteenth Century England website…
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Its mission is to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts, and design, and its major task is to constitute public scholarship as an important and legitimate enterprise.
Imagining America is based at the U-M, where it reports to the Office of the Vice President of Research.
Visit the Imagining America website…
Music of the United States of America (MUSA) is devoted to expanding the legacy of American music available for study and performance. Founded in 1988, MUSA is a collaborative venture administered by the American Musicological Society. MUSA is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by the U-M at its American Music Institute.
Read more about MUSA on their website, and about U-M’s American Music Institute on their web page…
The School of Music offers summer workshops for youth and adults in a variety of fields, including the Michigan Youth Ensembles, the Piano Pre-College Program, and weeklong programs for African music, conducting, music theory, vocal arts, chamber music, dance, and much more.
Read more about the School of Music’s programs on their website…
The mission of Basement Arts is to provide quality student-produced theater every weekend of the school year. Productions are directed, acted, and designed by students, and are open to the whole U-M community.
Visit the Basement Arts website…
The Residential College (RC) Players is a student group that produces quality theater on campus. Among their many offerings is the annual Midsummer Night’s Dream performance in the Arb.
