迪安的消息

To students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the College

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As we begin this unprecedented Fall 2020 semester, it is an opportunity for us to look back on the amazing work our faculty and students did in Spring as the Coronavirus caused us to move all classes online, as well as forward to the great things faculty are doing to sustain an excellent education for our H&一个学生. 你可以浏览我们的 Summer 2020 issue of 表达式 to see the College's "Resilience in the Time of Corona," over the spring and summer, as well as see my opening remarks highlighting much of this work here. 我们的教师 are continuing to innovate in the arts to keep our students dancing and acting and playing instruments while keeping every一个 safe this fall. And our humanities departments are innovating in an online environment, many having trained throughout the summer 这样做.

Our new web page for the College will be featuring the successes of our faculty, our students, and the work they do together. 这种“展示" highlights the amazing things we are continuing to do with our students, while our "Pandemic Pandemonium" activities this fall will ask students to engage the world around them within their courses to better understand how the humanities and arts illuminates the challenges that we face every day, as well as helping us find solutions 对他们来说.

Our thematic programming in the College continues to leverage the power of the arts and humanities to ask the most important questions of our time. 这些主题 year, including "Borderlands" and "Deep Humanities & Arts," explore immigration and migration issues and the challenges of technology through all of the disciplines in our College, from dance to theatre, to philosophy to literature, from music to the 视觉艺术. Our programming is wide-ranging, meant to challenge our students and integrate these ideas with their own classroom experiences. 我们自己的 锤剧院 Center is a place where many of these extraordinary events take place, even if a number of them will be virtual this year.

To see what our College does across our ten departments and colleges, please view this introductory video 或者查看 individual department webpages.

Our amazing and talented students and our committed and accomplished faculty are the core of our College. Our 教师 成就 page features recent achievements 通过教师. You can find out about Virginia San Fratello's recent award from LACMA, and Amy Glazier's new film, 美丽的梦想家. And you can read about recent or forthcoming faculty work, including recent editorials 在像这样的场合 The Washington Post.

And our students are frequent winners of competitions in design, journalism, and advertising. This work by students and faculty alike is inspiring. I hope you will engage with their accomplishments.

The beauty and power of the humanities and arts are featured through every part of the education we provide and the scholarly and artistic activities our faculty produce. Our cutting-edge work at the intersection of arts and technology, and our belief that the values of the humanities need to be built into the DNA of technological innovation show why "The Future of California Starts Here," at the College of Humanities and the Arts at San José State University.

香农·米勒
Dean, College of the Humanities and the Arts
San José State University