Collaborate with your peers university-wide on projects that interest you, like social justice campaigns, technology development, or study abroad. With innovative programs that build critical thinking and practical skills, Humanities at Michigan Tech supports your journey toward meaningful career options.
Grow strong communication skills, think creatively and critically, and embrace lifelong learning. Humanities at Michigan Tech is the place where you will learn to address the challenges facing today's world.
The Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture program at Michigan Tech is a vibrant intellectual community dedicated to the study of contemporary issues and problems from a variety of critical and theoretical standpoints.
Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture: Master's (MS) | Doctorate (PhD)
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Combine your love of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math (STEAM) into a career that requires creativity, critical-thinking, and communication skills. Strengthen your capability in another language and build a broad cultural base. Develop critical skills to become a life-long learner who adapts to a rapidly transforming, increasingly technical and scientific world. Learn the skills central to solving real-world problems in sustainability, human health, social justice, technology, and globalization. Our programs and faculty enrich campus and engage scholars from diverse fields in ambitious and meaningful projects.
Combine your creativity and curiosity to meet pressing societal challenges with innovative solutions. Graduate with the technical skills, critical thinking and tenacity to inspire, design and implement a sustainable future across social and natural sciences, humanities, and arts.
The College of Sciences and Arts is a community of faculty, staff, and students committed to excellence and driven by our passion for education, outreach, research, and creativity across the social and natural sciences, humanities, and the arts. Uniquely situated in the heart of Michigan's R1 flagship technological university, we specialize in human-centered potential and discovery-based learning designed to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Knowing that every student at Michigan Tech will pass through our doors, our college strives to be at the forefront of interdisciplinary collaborations that lead to breakthrough solutions.
Our students gain a profound understanding of social and cultural contexts through
experiential learning and innovative research. We welcome you to be part of our caring,
expansive college community, with 32 undergraduate and 24 graduate degrees to choose
from.
The opportunities in Michigan Tech's College of Sciences and Arts are limitless. Transform
into a civic leader ready to contribute to a sustainable future. Lead and participate
in action-based experiences that are critical to the start of a fulfilling career.
Job-shadow at a local hospital or veterinary clinic while preparing for a career in health. Design sound and lighting for a regional production. Conduct community forums on the implications of artificial intelligence. Work to
purify vaccines. Study the impact of social media on society. Research the mysteries
of space and galaxies beyond our universe. Explore transforming abandoned iron and
copper mines into giant batteries. Understand freshwater ecosystem health. Document
the nature of changes in cognitive function and motor behavior in aging and dementia.
At Michigan Tech, your academic growth is supported by a variety of learning centers, along with our Humanities Digital Media Zone and Writing Center. Model climate in the only cloud chamber of its kind. Take part in interdisciplinary health research in our state-of-the-art H-STEM Complex. Create amazing sights and sounds in our visual art, sound, and theatre performance spaces.
Not sure which major is the right fit? No problem. Browse the entire list of College of Sciences and Arts majors. Or, give yourself time and declare the General Sciences and Arts major, which lets you decide when you arrive on campus. To learn more, speak to an academic advisor.
