Office of the Dean
Advisory Board
Departments
Centers
Journals
News
Events
Contact
Home
Departments
Art History
The Department of Art History offers a lively range of courses on art and architecture from antiquity to the present.
»
Classical Studies
Our department boasts a faculty composed of first-rate scholars and teachers whose range of expertise reflects all the current
»
English
The Rice English department offers the B.A. and the Ph.D. One of the largest departments at Rice, it is nonetheless small
»
French Studies
With a staff of internationally known scholars and teachers, the Department of French Studies offers an unusually broad range
»
German Studies
The German Studies department provides an ideal interdisciplinary setting for the study of German literature, history and culture
»
Hispanic Studies
A major in Rice’s Hispanic Studies Program will graduate with a solid command of the Spanish language, as well as a broad knowledge
»
History
The Rice University History Department understands its function to be twofold: to create knowledge about the past
»
Kinesiology
The Department of Kinesiology, as an academic unit within the School of Humanities at Rice University, is committed
»
Linguistics
The Rice Linguistics Department is the home of an active community of scholars with a wide range of interests.
»
Philosophy
The study of philosophy provides a training in expressing thoughts clearly and precisely, in defending one's ideas,
»
Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies of Rice University is a research program dedicated to describing and analyzing
»
Visual & Dramatic Arts
The Visual & Dramatic Arts department at Rice gives students the opportunity to focus their art education in one of three
»
News
Alexander Byrd's Book Awarded AHA's Wesley-Logan Book Prize for 2009
Professor Alexander Byrd's book Captives and Voyagers has won the American Historical Association's Wesley-Logan for 2009.
»
See all News »
Events
December 1, 2009
World Religions Lecture: Hinduism
See all Events »
Newsletter
Over the last six years, since the start of my appointment as Dean of Humanities, it has been my great pleasure to produce a newsletter for our alumni, faculty, and friends.
»
All Newsletters »
Rice Gallery
Rice Gallery
Rice Gallery is the only university gallery in the nation dedicated to commissioning site-specific installation art.
»
Spotlight
Uwe Steiner
Uwe Steiner, Chair of German Studies, was able to spend last year in the German city of Freiburg im Breisgau, where he was working on a new major research project on “philosophical anthropology,” a trend in early twentieth-century German philosophy, influenced by philosophers like Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
»
Gateways
