Undergraduate

Programming and opportunities for undergraduate students

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Humanities coursework and research allows undergraduate students to immerse themselves with unfamiliar scenes, languages and perspectives. Learning to navigate these complex situations and ideas prepares students to make clearheaded decisions, serve as effective members of their communities and communicate with a variety of audiences. To promote these outcomes, the Center for the Humanities is committed to building community among undergraduates pursuing research in humanities fields, to demystifying the nature of humanities research for undergraduate students and to increasing the number of engagements between students and the diverse array of on-campus events and programs in the humanities.
 
Learn more about the humanities center’s opportunities for undergraduates below. Then, take the next step and learn more about making a career in the humanities: Humanities at WashU.

For Students

Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship 
The Kling Program empowers WashU juniors and seniors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to pursue a funded humanities research project of their own design over the course of their third and fourth years, to engage in interdisciplinary work and conversations about the role of the humanities in college and in public life, and to polish their findings in the form of a published article. Prospective students apply as sophomores.

Themed Fellowships 
Themed fellowships support undergraduate students in all Arts & Sciences majors in pursuing short-term, individual humanities research on a shared topic, while also creating community among cohort members. 

Studiolab Courses 
The humanities studiolab draws inspiration from both the studio and laboratory as pedagogical spaces, organized around a theme or problem for a sustained period. In addition to work on the central topic, members of the studiolab community incorporate and develop capacities, beyond specific disciplinary skills, essential to success within and beyond academia: competency with digital and other media, collaboration, project management, communication with multiple audiences and oral presentation. Studiolab courses are open to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students.
 

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