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Franklin College is a hub for research, scholarly achievement and global reach in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Its nationally known faculty are frequently recognized for their research impact, while fostering entrepreneurial thinking among their students that helps shape each student’s educational journey. Our students are known for their innovative and creative ambitions and pursue them to their fullest extent here at the College. Upon graduation, they join the Franklin network of more than 100,000 worldwide, who lead in their respective fields and frequently share their experiences and knowledge in the UGA classroom. Read more about our faculty, students, alumni, and initiatives in the College below.
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Pier Francesco Ferrari

From body language to actual words, we pick up signals and act (or simply behave) accordingly all the time. But how does this work? Psychologists, using new and emerging technology in brain imaging to study behaviorial process in primates, have made some startling discoveries over the last two… Read Article

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History of the American Novel

Henry James, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Agee, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, William Gaddis,… Read Article


2012 Meigs Professors

 

Two of the four University of Georgia faculty named Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors for 2012 are in the Franklin College. The Meigs Awards are the university's highest recognition for superior instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The 2012… Read Article


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Hollywood in the New Millenium

By many accounts, Hollywood has been in the midst of a transformation since at least 2000, the result of changing consumer habits, the dot.com bubble burst of 2001, the decline of DVD sales and rentals beginning in 2007, and the collapse of financial markets in 2008. And then there's Netflix.… Read Article