 Art History
The Department of Art History offers a lively range of courses on art and architecture from antiquity to the present. Our superb faculty often utilize the excellent museum resources in Houston, which are among the best in the nation.» |
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 Classical Studies
Our department boasts a faculty composed of first-rate scholars and teachers whose range of expertise reflects all the current major areas of research in Classics.» |
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 English
The Rice English department offers the B.A. and the Ph.D. One of the largest departments at Rice, it is nonetheless small enough to foster a sense of community where faculty are aware of and invested in the intellectual development of students as they proceed through its programs. » |
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 French Studies
With a staff of internationally known scholars and teachers, the Department of French Studies offers an unusually broad range of courses in French and Francophone language, literature, and civilization. »
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 German Studies
The German Studies department provides an ideal interdisciplinary setting for the study of German literature, history and culture in a wider international context. » |
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 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 of one of the world’s richest cultures.» |
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 History
The Rice University History Department understands its function to be twofold: to create knowledge about the past through research and to disseminate historical knowledge through publishing and teaching. » |
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 Kinesiology
The Department of Kinesiology, as an academic unit within the School of Humanities at Rice University, is committed to health promotion, disease prevention, physical fitness, career development, and enhanced quality of life.» |
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 Linguistics
The Rice Linguistics Department is the home of an active community of scholars with a wide range of interests. Broadly defined, the department adopts a functional, usage-based approach to language and linguistic theory.» |
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 Philosophy
The study of philosophy provides a training in expressing thoughts clearly and precisely, in defending one's ideas, and in evaluating the positions of others. Quite simply, philosophy gives training in critical thinking.» |
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 Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies of Rice University is a research program dedicated to describing and analyzing all forms of religion and religious behavior with a wide variety of philosophical, historical, social-scientific, theological, and literary methods. »
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 Visual & Dramatic Arts
The Visual & Dramatic Arts department at Rice gives students the opportunity to focus their art education in one of three distinct tracks of study: Studio, Theatre, or Film.» |