UWM College of Letters & Science
The largest of UWM's schools and colleges, our curriculum spans all of the areas that are traditionally included in a liberal arts education:
- Humanities – the human condition and culture as expressed through language, literature, arts and philosophy
- Natural Sciences – mathematics and the physical world
- Social Sciences – behavior, relationships and society
L&S students take courses in all three divisions as part of their general education, and every L&S student graduates prepared for work or graduate school with a well-rounded foundation and 21st century skills. Students are challenged to master practical knowledge in their chosen field(s) and lifelong skills in critical thinking, problem solving, and communication. L&S offers:
- 22 academic departments,
- 46 undergraduate majors,
- 42 graduate degree programs, and
- 36 certificate programs.
Many undergraduates enhance their education with research, service learning and community involvement, international and study abroad programs, first-year seminars, the Honors College and internships.
FEATURED ALUMNUS
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Suzanne Rutishauser Yorke ('11 MS Biological Sciences) co-hosts international nature TV show.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTSMarch 2012 Newsletter now available.A jam-packed issue: Milton Coleman, senior editor of The Washington Post, is named UWM's first Alumni Fellow. Our Art History Gallery collection goes digital and is now searchable online. And, Gay Reinartz, one of our biological sciences alums, talks about her life with bonobos in the Congo. All this and much more. Story ideas and alumni updates are always welcome at let-sci@uwm.edu. |
FEATURED APRIL EVENTSYour Immune System Up Close and PersonalFor the curious from 8 to 108, Science Bag is a free interactive presentation that connect science with your everyday life. Every Friday in April plus Sunday the 15th, the audience will learn how allergies are produced and how vaccines protect us from disease by using examples of bacteria and allergens. The audience will get to use a high powered scanning electron microscope that can magnify objects tens of thousands of times their normal size. Poetry Reading: Tzveta SofronievaTzveta is an award-winning poet and a native speaker of Bulgarian who has adopted German as her second literary language. She is a physicist by training and holds a doctorate in the history of science. Chantal Wright, from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, won the inaugural Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation for a translation of Tzveta’s work. This event is sponsored by UWM's Center for International Education and Translation Program; UW-Madison's Department of German; and Marquette University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. See Woodland Pattern Book Center for more information. |