The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) is the
liberal arts and sciences school of the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
in
Ann Arbor. Established in 1841 with seven students and two teachers, the college is currently the largest unit at U-M in terms of student enrollment. It is located on the university's Central Campus. It is also home to the University of Michigan Honors Program. In March 2013 Helen Zell gave $50 million to LSA, the largest gift in LSA history, to support scholarships and stipends for Master's students in creative writing.
History of LSA
The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts was originally designated the Literary Department and was the core of the University of Michigan. From 1841 to 1874, the faculty elected a president that communicated with the regents about department needs. In 1875,
Henry Simmons Frieze became the first of the deans of LSA.
Residential College
Founded in 1967, The Residential College (RC) is a division of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Jon Wells is the current director of the RC, and is currently teaching courses in English and African American Studies. 86 faculty and staff at the university are associated with the RC, including nine Academic Advisors and four administrators.
Students in the RC take classes in LSA as well as specially-designed RC courses, many of which are
seminar
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courses with fewer than fifteen students each. All RC students are required to live in the same
residence hall
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, East Quadrangle, for at least their first two years. Since the RC is a part of the LSA, all LSA academic requirements apply to it. In addition to the usual
concentrations
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in LSA, RC students may choose to pursue five additional concentrations (RC website): "Arts and Ideas in the Humanities," "Creative Writing and Literature," "Drama," "Social Theory and Practice," and an option for an "Individualized Major".
A major requirement for RC participation is intensive language training, which consists of two eight-credit courses similar to
language immersion
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, and one four-credit readings course. Intensive Japanese at the RC has no reading courses, and the semi-immersion curriculum consists of two ten-credit courses. Other languages offered include Spanish, French,
Latin
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, German, Japanese, and Russian.
Deans of the Faculty of Literature, Science, and the Arts
* 1875–1880
Henry Simmons Frieze
* 1880–1881
Charles Kendall Adams
* 1881–1882
Edward Olney
* 1882–1889 Henry Simmons Frieze
Deans of the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts
*1890-1897
Martin Luther D'Ooge
*1897-1907 Richard Hudson
*1907-1914
John Oren Reed
*1912-1915
John Robert Effinger (acting)
Deans of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
*1915–1933
John Robert Effinger
*1933–1945
Edward Henry Kraus Edward Henry Kraus (1875–1973) was a Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Michigan and also served as Dean of the Summer Session, 1915–1933, Dean of the College of Pharmacy, 1923–1933, and Dean of the College of Literature, Science an ...
*1945–1951
Hayward Keniston
Hayward Keniston (July 5, 1883 – August 10, 1970) was a linguist who served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1948 and as dean of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts from 1945 to 1951. He ...
*1951–1952
Burton Doan Thuma
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(acting)
*1952–1958
Charles Edwin Odegaard
*1959–1960
Roger William Heyns
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*1962–1963
Burton Doan Thuma
Burton, Burtons, or Burton's may refer to:
Companies
* Burton (retailer), a clothing retailer
**Burton's, Abergavenny, a shop built for the company in 1937
**The Montague Burton Building, Dublin a shop built for the company between 1929 and ...
(acting)
*1963–1968
William Haber
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*1968–1970
William Lee Hays
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*1970–1971
Alfred S. Sussman
Alfred may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series
* ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne
* ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák
*"Alfred (Interlu ...
(acting)
*1971–1974
Frank H. T. Rhodes
*1974–1976
Billy E. Frye (acting)
*1976–1980
Billy E. Frye
*1980–1981
John R. Knott (acting)
*1981–1989
Peter O. Steiner Peter Otto Steiner (July 9, 1922 – June 26, 2010) was a noted economist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. His research was on a wide range of topics and he published several books including (with Richard G. Lipsey ...
*1989–1998
Edie Goldenberg
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* Edie Adams (1927–2008), American businesswoman, singer, actress and comedian
* Edie Bo ...
*1998–1999
Patricia Gurin (acting)
*1999–2002
Shirley Neuman
*2002–2003
Terrence J. McDonald (acting)
*2003–2013
Terrence J. McDonald
*2013-2014
Susan A. Gelman (interim)
*2014–2018
Andrew D. Martin
*2018–2019 Elizabeth Cole (acting)
*2019–Present
Anne Curzan
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Educational institutions established in 1841
Liberal arts colleges at universities in the United States
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