College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

University of Michigan
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Angell Hall, one of the major buildings housing the LSA
Other name
LSA
MottoLeading in Thought and Action
TypePublic
Established1841 (1841)
Parent institution
University of Michigan
DeanRosario Ceballo[1]
Location
Ann Arbor, Michigan
,
United States

42°16′34.4″N 83°44′28.8″W / 42.276222°N 83.741333°W / 42.276222; -83.741333
Campus40 acres (16 ha)
Websitelsa.umich.edu

The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) is the liberal arts and sciences school of the University of Michigan. The college was established in 1841.

History

The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts was originally designated the Literary Department and was the core of the University of Michigan. From 1841 to 1874, the faculty elected a president that communicated with the regents about department needs. In 1875, Henry Simmons Frieze became the first of the deans of LSA.[2]

Departments

The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts consists of three divisions: the Humanities Division, the Natural Sciences Division, and the Social Sciences Division.[3]

Humanities Division

The Humanities Division consists of the following academic departments and units:[4]

  • Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Department of American Culture
  • Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
  • Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
  • Department of Classical Studies
  • Department of Comparative Literature
  • Department of English Language and Literatures
  • Department of Film, Television, and Media
  • Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • Department of History
  • Department of the History of Art
  • Institute for the Humanities
  • Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
  • Department of Middle East Studies
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Residential College
  • Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Natural Sciences Division

The Natural Sciences Division consists of the following academic departments and units:[5]

  • Applied Physics Program
  • Department of Astronomy
  • Biological Station
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Center for the Study of Complex Systems
  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
  • Museum of Paleontology
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Biophysics
  • Department of Program in the Environment
  • Department of Statistics

Social Sciences Division

The Social Sciences Division consists of the following academic departments and units:[6]

  • Department of Anthropology
  • Department of Communication and Media
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of History
  • International Institute
  • Department of Linguistics
  • Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
  • Department of Organizational Studies
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of Psychology
  • Department of Sociology
  • Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science
  • Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

List of deans

Name Service year Length

(Approx.)

Field of study
Faculty of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Henry Simmons Frieze 1875–1880 5 years Classical Studies[7]
Charles Kendall Adams 1880–1881 1 year History[8]
Edward Olney 1881–1882 1 year Mathematics[9]
Henry Simmons Frieze 1882–1889 7 years Classical Studies
Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Martin Luther D'Ooge 1890–1897 7 years Classical Studies[10]
Richard Hudson 1897–1907 10 years History[11]
John Oren Reed 1907–1914 1 year Physics[12]
John Robert Effinger (acting) 1912–1915 3 years French[13]
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
John Robert Effinger 1915–1933 8 years French
Edward Henry Kraus 1933–1945 12 years Mineralogy[14]
Hayward Keniston 1945–1951 6 year Romance Languages[15]
Burton Doan Thuma (acting) 1951–1952 1 year Psychology[16]
Charles Edwin Odegaard 1952–1958 6 years History[17]
Roger William Heyns 1959–1960 1 year Education[18]
Burton Doan Thuma (acting) 1962–1963 1 year Psychology
William Haber 1963–1968 5 years Economics[19]
William Lee Hays 1968–1970 2 years Psychology[20]
Alfred S. Sussman (acting) 1970–1971 1 year Botany[21]
Frank H. T. Rhodes 1971–1974 3 years Geological Sciences/Mineralogy[22]
Billy E. Frye (acting) 1974–1976 2 years Zoology[23]
Billy E. Frye 1976–1980 4 years Zoology
John R. Knott (acting) 1980–1981 1 year English[24]
Peter O. Steiner 1981–1989 8 years Economics/Law[25]
Edie Goldenberg 1989–1998 9 years Political Science[26]
Patricia Gurin (acting) 1998–1999 1 year Psychology/Women's Studies[27]
Shirley Neuman 1999–2002 3 years English/Women's Studies[28]
Terrence J. McDonald (acting) 2002–2003 1 year History[29]
Terrence J. McDonald 2003–2013 10 years History
Susan A. Gelman (interim) 2013–2014 1 year Psychology[30]
Andrew D. Martin 2014–2018 4 years Political Science[31]
Elizabeth Cole (interim) 2018–2019 1 year Social Sciences[32]
Anne Curzan 2019–2024 5 years Linguistics[33]
Rosario Ceballo 2024–present incumbent Psychology[34]

Source:[35]

Residential College

The Residential College (RC) is a unit within the Humanities Division at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts..[36]

Founded in 1967,[37] the Residential College was designed to create a smaller liberal arts program with the resources of a larger university. The college was developed by a planning committee of faculty that included Theodore Newcomb, Carl Cohen, and Bradford Perkins.[38]

Students in the RC take classes in LSA as well as specially designed RC courses, many of which are seminar courses with fewer than fifteen students each. All RC students are required to live in the same residence hall, East Quadrangle, for at least one year. Since the RC is a part of the LSA, all LSA academic requirements apply to its students. In addition to the usual concentrations in LSA, RC students may choose to pursue five additional concentrations (RC website): "Arts and Ideas in the Humanities," "Creative Writing and Literature," "Drama," "Social Theory and Practice," and an option for an "Individualized Major."

A major requirement for RC participation is intensive language training, which consists of two eight-credit courses similar to language immersion, and one four-credit readings course. Intensive Japanese at the RC has no reading courses, and the semi-immersion curriculum consists of two ten-credit courses. The other languages offered are Spanish, French, German, and Russian.

References

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