Support WesternThe Western Program
at Miami University
The new Western Program will feature an innovative curriculum for students to integrate their varied interests into a unique self-designed major. If you are intellectually adventurous, independently minded, and eager to participate in an exciting new program, designing an individualized course of study with the support of Western faculty might be right for you!
[Read the Message from the Director.]
Focus on activism ...
As we launch this new program, our curricular and co-curricular focus is on the history and practice of activism: the ideas, individual actions, and collective efforts that have inspired movements for change within local, national, and global contexts.
Come.
Join us in a unique residential-college experience ...
Our Living-Learning Community provides a great opportunity for first-year students and selected sophomores to:
- Build an intellectual community with other students
- Work closely with faculty and advisors
- Interact with people from many different backgrounds
- Participate in special Western community events
- Integrate what you learn inside and outside classes
Much more than a residence hall ...
Yes, Peabody Hall has 2 residence floors. But there are also:
- faculty offices
- small classrooms and seminar rooms
- a theater
- a gallery
- a writing center
- a computer lab
- study spaces
- a community kitchen
- comfortable common areas like Peabody living room