College of Liberal Arts

PhD candidate Sayan Bhattacharya raised emergency funds for the transgender and non-binary communities in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her three years on campus, Seoyeon has worked hard to ensure all students with marginalized identities feel welcome, whether they are from another country, LGBTQIA+, or students of color.

In this M Global Presents... webinar, University of Minnesota language educators explored questions related to the intersection of language and social justice.

Two University of Minnesota students have been selected by the National Security Education Program as winners of competitive Boren Awards to support the study of languages and cultures critical to U.S. interests.

Lilli Ambort will begin graduate studies at Peking University in the fall as a Yenching Scholar. She will join a cohort of 90 students from 37 countries and 27 Chinese students to complete a master’s degree in China Studies with a concentration in Law and Society.

University of Minnesota Choirs welcomed national and international guest artists as part of the University Singers Global Voices Unit. During this unprecedented Fall semester, Wednesday afternoon workshops provide a weekly forum to hear from guest lecturers and learn new music. 

The Social SCILS program will create a suite of materials in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish that are grounded in multiliteracies pedagogy and address a range of critical social justice topics (e.g., racism, global health, language policy, environmental sustainability).

After the COVID-19 pandemic ended study abroad opportunities in the spring and summer, the Learning Abroad Center quickly pivoted to launch an innovative virtual international internship program.

Since 2009, over 61,000 people have disappeared in Mexico with little to no investigation into what happened. The unsupported explanation is that these disappearances were solely connected to fights between drug cartels. University of Minnesota Human Rights Program Director Barbara Frey is helping reveal what really happened to these disappeared people.

Established in 2014, the Chinese Flagship Program prepares UMN students to be global professionals fluent in Chinese language and culture. Now, the renewal of the Chinese Flagship Grant will take Chinese language and culture instruction and immersion even further.