By studying in the College of Arts & Sciences, you can discover how the intellectual resources of people, libraries, laboratories, studios, and computers can best be used. More important, the College provides you with the opportunity to explore those resources necessary to all occupations: a heightened spirit of inquiry, an ability to organize and synthesize information, skills in written and oral expression, and a familiarity with the ways in which thoughtful men and women have discovered those commitments and values that make life worthwhile.
"While studying abroad in Cape Town, my Hoopes Undergraduate Research Award allowed me to film a documentary on the role that education is playing in the reconciliation process in post-apartheid South Africa and move outside of the classroom in my exploration of the practical application of classroom knowledge in everyday life."
