Department Archives: College of Arts and Humanities

All first-year students at UCF read Zora Neale Hurston’s “Dust Tracks on a Road” as a part of the 2018 Common Read program. English professor Anna Lillios talks about why this book was selected and what makes the local author so special.

The Florida Humanities Council granted the UCF History Department a $4,360 grant to assist the Jones High School Historical Society with archiving their museum and collections.

The UCF Modern Languages and Literature Department is encouraging current Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Undergraduate Certification students to apply for an ETA-ship abroad. This year’s selected student, Emily Puckett, worked alongside experienced instructors at two bilingual schools in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

The Orlando Sentinel featured the Veterans Legacy Program’s upcoming research trip to France, which is part of an ongoing effort at UCF to research and record the personal stories of American veterans.

UCF CREATE is hosting a documentary camp for high school students, during which students create their own documentaries on how they have been inspired by mentors.

An initiative that seeks to offer a high-quality undergraduate education to people who are incarcerated and is led by faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities has been championed by the university.

In honor of “National Dump the Pump Day,” UCF sat down with Omnimodal founders David Thomas Moran and Nathan Selikoff to ask a few questions.

Rachael Rothstein-Safra ’17, a recent history alumna and staff member for the UCF Community Veterans History Project was named a Boren fellow. Fellows represent highly motivated individuals who are selected to study languages deemed critical to U.S. national security.

UCF is one of 75 organizations to receive an NEA Big Read grant to host a community reading program in 2019. The Big Read at UCF will focus on Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Activities will take place from March 15-April 15, 2019. 

AAC&U announced that 24 departments from institutions across the country will receive mini-grants, supported by a grant from The Endeavor Foundation, to advance civic learning and social responsibility.