College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Liberal arts and sciences school in Michigan
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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.
Angell Hall, one of the major buildings housing the LSA | |
Other name | LSA |
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| Motto | Leading in Thought and Action |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1841 |
Parent institution | University of Michigan |
| Dean | Rosario Ceballo[1] |
| Location | , United States 42°16′34.4″N 83°44′28.8″W |
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| Website | lsa |
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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
Deans
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| 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]
Helen Zell Writers' Program
The Helen Zell Writers' Program is a two-year, fully funded Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing within the University of Michigan's English Department. Students in the program concentrate in either fiction or poetry.[36] In 2013, Helen Zell gave $50 million to support the graduate writing program, which was renamed for her.[37]
Alumni and former students include Jesmyn Ward,[38] Celeste Ng,[39] Brit Bennett,[40] Danez Smith,[41] Vievee Francis,[42] and Chigozie Obioma.[43]
Residential College
The Residential College (RC) is a unit within the Humanities Division at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts..[44]
Founded in 1967,[45] 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.[46]
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.