Plan II must often deny applicants with excellent grades and test scores who submit mediocre essays. A great essay can sweep us off our feet and perhaps make up for somewhat lower scores or relatively ...

UT's Department of Linguistics is committed to teaching and research in linguistics, the scientific and humanistic study of human language. Our research examines form and meaning in a wide variety of ...

The France-UT Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies has been recognized as one of fourteen interdisciplinary centers (centres pluridisciplinaires) located in prestigious universities in the United ...

What can you do with a major in rhetoric? As so many of the quotes featured in our website indicate, writing and critical thinking are the skills most highly valued by employers today. Rhetoric majors ...

Philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is one of the oldest and most enduring human intellectual enterprises. Philosophy begins in wonder—wonder at the richness, order, and beauty of the world around us, ...

Education and Health Disparities Across Adulthood is organized by Mark Hayward and Chandra Muller. This group is aimed at promoting research on the topic of education and health disparities in ...

The following scale represents the standard practice grading scale for undergraduate courses in American Studies.

"People draw on history (and by relation archaeology) every day; whether it’s family history, histories of national pride, state pride, local legends, all of it goes into shaping our own understanding ...

Advanced undergraduate students enrolled in a degree program at UT Austin can apply to pursue the Creative Writing Certificate. At the graduate level, MFA degrees in creative writing are offered ...

All students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in history must meet the relevant University Core, College of Liberal Arts, and flag requirements as specified by their undergraduate catalog. A student ...

As one of the liberal arts, Government - also called political science - teaches students how to think and communicate about politics. A Government major can dissect and evaluate actual or proposed ...