COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, & SOCIAL SCIENCES

As UCA’s newest college, College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences consists of the School of Communication and nine departments: Art & Design; English; Film, Theatre and Creative Writing; Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures; Music; Philosophy & Religion; Political Science; and Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology. In an effort to expand facilities and resources for students, the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts broke ground in October 2020.

The combination of communication, liberal, and performing arts has allowed for greater student and community engagement. The Suffrage Centennial Project featured 20 public events and 60 outreach workshops including the creation of a ground mural at the Arkansas State Capitol. The first annual “Quoined Corner: CAHSS Student Research and Creative Activity Conference” held via YouTube, included 26 student-faculty videos over topics such as “Confronting COVID” and “Exploring the EDGE: Global Encounters.”

HIGHLIGHTS

◊ English majors Rachel Johnson and Katherine Martin presented at the 2021 Richard Macksey Undergraduate

Humanities Symposium hosted by Johns Hopkins

University.

◊ UCA alumni Sophia Ordaz and Alexander Battaglia were offered Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships.

◊ Euphonium graduate Thomas Janssen was named winner of the “Young Artist Performance” by the Arkansas

Music Teachers National Association Competition. ◊ The UCA Scroll was inducted into the Walsworth Gallery of Excellence for the third year in a row.

◊ As elected chairman of the Arkansas Freedom of

Information Task Force, Rob Moritz, lecturer I of journalism, is responsible for making recommendations on bills that will affect the state public records and open meetings law.

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The number of public events and outreach workshops presented by the suffrage centennial project including the creation of a ground mural at the arkansas state capitol.