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Contact: Dean Chris Comer
LA 136, Missoula, MT 59812
Telephone: 243-2632
Fax: 406-243-4076

Building Bridges with an Islamic Culture

The University of Montana and the College of Arts and Sciences are helping Montanans build bridges with Pakistan—one friendship at a time. Sixteen-year-old Katie Mikelsons said she used to think that people in Islamic countries “went around shooting each other and were bad.” But that was before she got to know Tayyab Mahmood Rai and others through a grant that brings Pakistani educators to Missoula to learn how American teachers teach and to build bridges between the two cultures.

The three-year grant, one of only two awarded nationally, is funded by USAID and administered by UM’s Office of International Read More...

Global Education

When the College of Arts and Sciences adopted the motto "Connecting the West with the World," we hoped students would take it both figuratively and literally-especially now that the University has study abroad and exchange opportunities on every continent except Antarctica.

One of the College's great strengths is its ability to provide a global education, in both the figurative and literal sense: students must study a wide array of subjects in addition to their major, and come to understand how their specialty fits into the universe of disciplines. And they literally have access to a myriad of cultures, histories, languages, and bodies of knowledge-and now have great opportunities to experience those firsthand through study abroad.

UM's study abroad program has grown exponentially since its inception in 1972, when the University started offering students the opportunity to spend a term studying and living abroad as participants in one of several programs created and administered by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (formerly the Department of Foreign Languages).