In five prolific years, Duke’s Arabic debate team has made four appearances at the United States Universities Arabic Debating Championship, winning back-to-back national titles in 2022 and 2023. Faculty advisor and senior lecturer of Arabic in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Maha Houssami, acknowledges the foreign language skills and intercultural experiences students gain last much longer than a wins and losses tally.
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With recommendations from the Trinity Curriculum Development Committee, the Arts & Sciences Council has adopted a new curriculum beginning in Fall 2025. The A&S curriculum governs much of undergraduate education at Duke and changes will speak to the interests and needs of our students in the coming decades.
The Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab at Duke is a dynamic research community of faculty, staff, and students who engage and advance digital methods and promote new approaches to scholarship and pedagogy in the study and interpretation of the visual arts, architecture, cultural heritage and urban environments. Learn more: https://dahvc.org/