Members of our faculty have received numerous prizes and awards for their publications. We number a MacArthur Fellow as well as recipients of major grants and fellowships from such institutions as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Brother Protector , Nguyen Thi Dieu 's The Mekong Delta and the Struggle for Indochina , Herbert Ershkowitz 's John Wanamaker , and Gregory Urwin 's Facing Fearful Odds . History majors really get to know their professors at Temple. The department's ratio of students in the majors to faculty is 5-1.
Internships offer students attractive ways to put their education to practical use.
Students can learn new skills and explore professional goals while making contributions to the workplace. Opportunities are available in archives, museums, historical parks, and historic preservation. Japanese language is offered at all levels. The courses are taught by a distinguished faculty, and except for the Japanese language courses are conducted in English. Temple University also has its own campus in Rome, which offers courses in history as well as in the other liberal arts, architecture, international business, and the visual arts.