Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies examines common features in the literatures of more than one culture. It can focus on a genre, a period or a theme, or it can focus very broadly on the materials of literature itself—structure, rhetoric or language. We live today…

Being part of the Astrophysics program is like being at a small private university. Most of our astrophysics majors get to know each other well and many study together. The student to faculty ratio is relatively small, which enables interested students to interact with faculty…

The program of the department is designed to guide the student in the systematic investigation of such basic issues as the nature of reality, knowledge, value, and obligation. This involves studying the major figures of the western philosophical tradition and assessing the…