A new $25 million gift from the Neubauer Family Foundation, the largest in the University’s history for PhD education, will provide enhanced resources to recruit PhD students in the divisions of the Humanities, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences.
The College will introduce a new Humanities Core sequence option, Poetry and the Human, beginning in Autumn 2017.
The two initiatives, Signature Courses and Course Clusters, will broaden opportunities for interdisciplinary study among undergraduates.
The Department of English Language and Literature will offer a new undergraduate major in creative writing, beginning in Autumn Quarter 2017. First-, second- and third-year students will have the option to major in creative writing, or take on a double major in creative writing and any major they wish to pursue, including English. A minor in English and creative writing also will be open to students outside those programs.