Our Mission:

The multiple disciplines that comprise the University of Houston-Downtown Department of Arts and Humanities and the stimulating ethnic and cultural diversity of our faculty and students both create and reflect our commitment to the truest sense of the liberal arts.  Through the excellence of our faculty in the areas of teaching, scholarship, creativity and service, our mission is to educate students to think critically so that they will then be able to use appropriate communication skills to express effectively their ideas in a variety of media.  The critical, historical, and global perspective we offer in the study of languages, rhetoric, and the visual and performing arts is enhanced by courses that offer hands-on applications, including those that incorporate new technologies.  Such inclusion further broadens the scope of the liberal arts tradition by taking advantage of contemporary advances to build on past wisdom while anticipating future innovations.