Fund for Students in the Arts & Humanities

In these team-taught undergraduate courses, students engage with profound questions about what makes us human, explore the roots of cultural heritages, and learn how the humanities provide the necessary social, ethical, and historical contexts to understand the world today. Through classes like Borders and Belonging: Reading Refugees through Law, Literature and Film, Compass Courses advance a common journey of discovery.

Many transfer students report that the transition from community college to UC Berkeley is one of the most challenging moments in their educational careers. Transfer Foundations supports that transition by exploring key methods in the humanities in transparent and demystifying ways.

Designed for upper-division students, the courses provide mentorship, support, and feedback as students work on individual research projects with faculty members and graduate-student mentors. Recent offerings have included Remembering Eugenics at Berkeley and in California.

Careers week includes a Creative Careers Mixer that encourages networking between undergraduates and early-career professionals in arts and humanities industries, and a keynote with the Dean in conversation with a prominent alum. We are working to expand mentorship and internship opportunities to help students gain connections and experience as they prepare to enter the workforce.

Funding packages that are competitive with other top-ranked universities help us recruit the best graduate students in the world, supporting the next generation of scholars throughout their years at Berkeley while they work alongside faculty, hone their own research and mentor undergraduates.