The Department of Communication

The Department of Communication examines human message systems, focusing particularly on the ways in which human beings create, exchange, and are affected by messages.

Faculty and graduate student teaching and research interests include communication technology, health communication, interpersonal communication, mass communication, political communication, and organizational/small group communication.

Department of English

The Department of English at the University of Arizona is one of the nation’s most dynamic places to study Literature, Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Applied Linguistics, Teaching English as a Second Language, Writing, Film and Media, Cultural Studies, and much more.

School of Geography and Development

Faculty and graduate student research interests range broadly, including the sustainability of cities; social theory and culture; climatology and environmental impacts in the American Southwest; economic development; landscape ecology and forest restoration; human impacts of global climate change; geographic epidemiology; international development and environmental sustainability; conflict over the public presentation of ethnic identity; local government restructuring; spatial interaction modeling; American migration; European fertility; GIS/visualization; environmental policy;  and remote sensing of fire-induced vegetation change.

Department of History

From the intimacies of family life to the dynamics of the workplace, from the building of communities to the formation of nation states, from histories of global climate change to transcontinental pandemics, from acts of faith and piety to scientific inquiry and discovery, our discipline studies every dimension of the human experience in all its diversity.

School of Journalism

The school has a strong tradition of training journalists the fundamentals that will help them succeed in any career, whether print, broadcast or online. Students learn how to gather information, critically analyze it, and communicate it effectively, accurately, and ethically. Specialties include international journalism, science/environmental journalism, and public affairs journalism, led by faculty who have professional experience from the New York Times, National Geographic, and other world-class news organizations. Active research includes how journalists visually portray war, dangers to journalists along the U.S.-Mexico border, the history of the radical press, and freedom of information around the world.

Late Medieval and Reformation Studies

Reuniting three fields—late medieval, Reformation, and early modern history—which in the European tradition were long separated along confessional lines, the Division promotes graduate research transcending these demarcations. At the same time, it encompasses social, political, religious, economic, and cultural developments in early modern Europe.

Department of Linguistics

Have you ever wondered why we say "feet" rather than "foots"? Or how a child at the age of 3 has a vocabulary of 14,000 words but can't tie her own shoes? Or what we do with our mouths to make a b sound different from a p? Or why we rarely say what we actually mean?

School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies is a multi-disciplinary unit focusing on the region extending from Morocco to Afghanistan which includes the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey, providing a full range of language courses in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew (through Judaic Studies) and undergraduate and graduate studies in culture, history, religion, politics and conflict.