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Rendering courtesy of MSU Physical Plant “Students can learn how history, language, visual culture, music, and ethical reflection are woven together”. A NEW MSU RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FOCU S MSU’s new residential college offers students a new global and interdisciplinary emphasist on arts and humanities. By Carol A. Cole In Fall 2007, students choosing to attend MSU will have a new option—a new residential college that combines a global and interdisciplinary emphasis with a residential living-learning setting to enhance the undergraduate experience in the arts and humanities at MSU. Its mission is to weave together the passion, imagination, humor, and candor of the arts and humanities to promote individual well-being and the common good. The College, which will open to students in Fall 2007, will provide the supportive environment, small faculty-student ratios, easy access to faculty, and opportunities for mentoring that have characterized MSU’s highly successful James Madison College and Lyman Briggs School, which provide residential programs focusing respectively on public affairs and the natural sciences. In keeping with MSU President Simon’s Boldness by Design initiative, the RCAH recognizes both the importance of a supportive living-learning center to an optimal undergraduate experience and the need to equip students to live and work effectively as global citizens of the twenty-first century. The communication and writing skills, visual literacy, and sensitivity to culture and transcultural change developed during their studies in the RCAH will equip graduates for a wide range of careers in the creative arts or in global or community service, as well as for academic careers in the arts and humani- Page 26 Winter 2007 MSU Alumni Magazine 046957070001_26-29.indd 26 1/30/07 10:44:11 AM
U SING ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES ties. The RCAH also will programs for each student—paired flection are woven together. student’s career goals. Possible vide an excellent foundation for with its commitment to foster an While all RCAH students pathways include: those wishing to pursue gradu- engaging living/learning environ- will graduate with an interdis- ·Language and Culture ate study in law, medicine, or ment—will provide an exciting, ciplinary major in the arts and ·Childhood and Society other specialized fields. new opportunity for students.” humanities, the curriculum is ·Art and Public Life “The rich interplay between the designed to be flexible, encourag- ·Nature and Culture diverse range of arts and humani- A Flexible and ing students to tailor their studies ·Technology and Creativity ties offerings here at Michigan Innovative Curriculum to their own interests and abili- The curriculum is designed to State will become more fully Through a lively combination ties through elective pathways to facilitate pursuing a second ma- realized by way of RCAH’s inte- of integrated seminars, tutorials, other majors and specializations. jor or specialization if students grated and experiential approach creative workshops, and civic Working with a faculty advisor, desire. A student studying crim- to learning,” says MSU President engagement activities, students students will complement their inal justice, for example, might Lou Anna K. Simon. “The Col- will study the complex ways in RCAH core studies with courses find the foreign language study lege’s unique curricular approach which history, language, visual from outside the College that and cultural understanding of creating individualized pro- culture, music, and ethical re- cohere in a way relevant to each provided by the RCAH curricu- Click Right Through for MSU www.msualum.com Page 27 046957070001_26-29.indd 27 1/30/07 10:44:39 AM
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