The term “liberal arts” refers to a grouping of disciplines that, in Western culture, are considered essential for adequate education and civic participation: the Humanities (Arts, English, Foreign Languages, History, and Philosophy), the Social Sciences (Anthropology, Communication, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Women’s Studies), the Sciences (Biology, Geology, and Physics), and Mathematics.

DaVerge is an online Social Networking System, connecting people from around the globe. that focuses on the Circle of Friends technique for networking individuals in virtual communities. DaVerge offers some unique features that other social networking systems lack such as an ability to send SMS to over 70 networks around the world. DaVerge also allows users to engage in Live Chat with online users

VergeCMS is an online Content Management System that lets anyone (having no knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, FTP, Server Hosting or anything) create a professional looking website in less than 4 minutes. Unlike any other CMS on the Internet, Verge provides a bunch of features that can be enabled with just one click of user’s mouse, for example, a search engine for the website, online calendar, text-only version, e-mail forms, pull down and popup DHTML menus, chat engine, quick polls, message boards/forums, blogs, and much more.

Outside Magazine has named the top ten outdoor towns in the USA. Duluth, MN is the only Midwestern community listed next to Santa Fe, NM; Bellingham WA; and Santa Barbara, CA. Communities were selected based on close access to multiple outdoor activities, employment levels, housing marketing, and intact cultural identity. Features including natural food stores, climbing gyms, outdoor music venues, minor league baseball, and an active arts community were considered in addition to natural attractions.

Protégé Books, Inc. is the first and only online textbook rental program. This service has been created as a practical, convenient and most importantly economical solution to the rising expense of college textbooks

MyCronJobs is an online Job Scheduling Service designed for timed delivery of web scripts with real time monitoring. Job Scheduling is very critical to the success of any business or in this case any Web based system. Most of the hosting services don't allow CronJobs on their servers, in this case, the Web Developers have no choice to setup their scheduling service to perform the basic tasks.

Many occupations today require a college educated individual who can write and speak well, solve problems, learn new information quickly and work well with others on a team. This means that college graduates use their education in a wide variety of fields, and your future career may relate more to your personal career interests, work values and transferable skills than any specific academic major. However, the following list contains a representative sample of current job titles of former Sociology majors. Use this as an idea list, and remember that it represents some, but certainly not all, of the careers you might consider.

The mission of the Women's Studies Department is to provide a nurturing environment for the whole person -- to help each student find her or his own strengths, gifts, and path, as well as to raise awareness about the way that path concerns and connects with all other beings. Academically, we seek to provide our students with a solid background in knowledge about gender, race, and class issues; feminist analysis; and critical thinking and oral and written communication. Vocationally, we prepare students for contributions in a wide variety of fields.

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CLA office hours are 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Please view the WDS Online Calendar to see individual schedules. Use our Online Appointment Form to set up an appointment with a WDS employee. If a site WDS has constructed requires updates or maintenance, please utilize the Automated WDS Request Form. To contact an individual WDS employee, please view the WDS Staff webpage.

The UMD Honors Program is designed to bring together high-achieving students and dedicated faculty and to provide a small university environment within the diversity of opportunity of the larger university community. We offer motivated students who are serious about their intellectual growth a variety of special classes enhanced by many cultural events and activities, as well as leadership and research opportunities. Our program fosters close individual contact between students and faculty and brings together talented students with many interests.

With the end of World War II, the Duluth State Teachers College was transformed into a University of Minnesota Campus. That expansion in 1947 brought a more ambitious and demanding student body and led to recruitment of a larger and more specialized history faculty. In the following decades the Department contributed to the liberal education of undergraduates and trained History majors and minors with specialized courses, seminars, and other research opportunities. History graduates have frequently gone on to law school and graduate school. They have found careers in the law; government at the local, state and federal level; in journalism, both in print and electronic; in teaching and museum work.

Geography is the science of place and space. Geographers ask where things are located on the surface of the earth, why they are located where they are, how places differ from one another, and how people interact with the environment. There are two main branches of geography: human geography and physical geography. Human geography is concerned with the spatial aspects of human existence - how people and their activity are distributed in space, how they use and perceive space, and how they create and sustain the places that make up the earth's surface

The Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory (GISL) is located in 324 CINA Hall on the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) campus in the Department of Geography. This lab is used as a teaching facility for all of the GIS and cartography courses in the Department of Geography. In addition, its staff and its services contribute to the UMD Campus as an educational resource, and as a research facility for cartographic and geographic information system (GIS) needs.

DEPARTMENT OFFICE FOR STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS The Department considers studying abroad a very important part of any education in a foreign language and its culture. It makes every effort to encourage and facilitate students' participation in both short and long programs, and sponsors several programs itself. The International Education Office collaborates with the Department in making studying abroad easy and productive.