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{4} SELF-GUIDED TOUR. elcome to Texas Tech University, a campus marked by Spanish Renaissance architecture, steeped in tradition and known for gracious West Texas hospitality. Use W HONORS COLLEGE McClellan Hall houses the college, which offers this walking tour as your guide and enjoy your visit! specialized courses, undergraduate research, early registration and a residence hall community in addition START Begin your tour at West Hall, home to the Visitors Center, Office to outstanding instruction from expert faculty. HERE of Admissions and Student Financial Center—a one-stop shop for prospective students. The Broadway Entry Gates , fountains and COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS The college fosters Seal mark the main entrance to campus. Grammy-winning musicians, renowned artists and Broadway actors. It’s one of only two colleges in Texas to offer all the traditional theatre arts degrees. SEAL OF TEXAS TECH. The 12-foot granite seal is a favorite photo spot on graduation day. The courtyard between the SUB and the University Library displays BROADWAY AND UNIVERSITY. Lively student hangouts more unique public art. Read Reader, a figure made entirely of cast and spirit shops on the strip east of campus offer the fun books, stands at the north end. Moving south, you’ll find the Tornado shopping and dining found only in a true college town. of Ideas, with creative figures meant to provoke conversation. The silver sphere, Comma, blends art and science interactively. Sample Walk south across the street from West Hall to Park Place, an installation in the sound of the sun by pushing a knob on the sculpture. our award-winning public art collection. The sculptures by nationally known artist and Lubbock native Glenna Goodacre are placed near the College of UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Explore the third largest library Human Sciences because they depict the stages of human life. in Texas with more than two million volumes. COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES One of the largest of its SOUTHWEST COLLECTIONS/SPECIAL COLLECTIONS kind in the nation, the college offers diverse programs like LIBRARY This historical research center houses, among Early Childhood Education, Personal Financial Planning others things, the Vietnam Collection—the largest and Fashion Design. collection of material on the Vietnam Conflict outside the federal government. The Administration Building, Texas Tech’s original structure stands west of Human Sciences and houses offices for the university and Just behind the University Library you’ll find buildings that system leadership. The building features two bell towers—one for the make up the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Victory Bells, which ring after every Texas Tech athletic victory, and the other Resources–CASNR. Known for its student-friendly faculty and for the Carillon bells, which play during special events like the holiday Carol of progressive programs, the college consistently produces outstanding Lights. student leaders including the numerous world champion teams THE HONORABLE PRESTON SMITH. The larger-than-life DAIRY BARN In our early days, this original campus statue of Preston Smith depicts the Texas Tech graduate building boarded some students’ cows and chickens, who served as governor of Texas 1968-1972. He was whose milk and eggs were sold to help pay tuition. instrumental in opening our schools of law and medicine. CHARLES E. MAEDGEN THEATRE The Mainstage here annually hosts seasons of major productions, both DOUBLE T BENCH. Rest on the bench, even though dramatic and musical. Auditions are open to all students. tradition holds that only upperclassmen can sit there! Continue west around the Foreign Language Building and enter Walk south from the Administration Building to the SUB, the Student the courtyard of the English, Philosophy and Education Union Building, where Red Raiders meet to eat, study and socialize. A Complex-EPE, one of our newest academic buildings. The bank, post office, theatre, food court and meeting rooms make the SUB one centerpiece of the space is Headwaters, a sculpture court and fountain of the most popular spots on campus. Take a break at Starbucks Café or buy representing a blend of ideas based in English, philosophy and a t-shirt at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore. education. The Center for Campus Life and Student STUDENT INVOLVEMENT. SCHOOL OF ART Galleries and studios in the school periodically display Activities, both in the SUB, oversee more than 500 service, student and faculty works and are open to the public. academic, professional, social and religious groups. SCHOOL OF MUSIC Connected to the SUB, the school COLLEGE OF EDUCATION The north building in the EPE offers majors in performance, composition, theory and complex houses the college, some unique facilities like teacher certification. Extracurricular ensembles like our the Sowell Center for Visual Impairment and the Burkhart 400-member Goin’ Band from Raiderland are open to all Center for Autism Education. students. 48 N 78 83 11 5TH STREET 76 STADIUM 72 10 95 74 52 63 47 HEALTH SCIENCES 7TH STRE ET DR IV 45 CENTER E O F CHAMPIONS A K 58 RO N A 64 VENUE E NU BASEBALL VE T A IN FIELD FL 69 NA GOODACRE BLVD 27 GLEN 61 57 C 17 A 26 N T 79 O N 20 TRACK A V 38 E & N U E 39 FIELD 35 15 36 24 73 49 90 81 18 42 53 77 37 12 WEST HALL 87 65 14 41 13 8 71 HERE 86 START SOCCER COMPLEX 21 93 89 56 1 SOFTBALL FIELDS 50 54 43 32 44 22 31 5 2 REC 3 CENTER 68 85 88 70 82 30 62 6 5 STUDENT 33 40 UNION ARENA 80 29 LIBRARY 66 51 E U 7 46 75 N 9 E V A A N 84 54 A I D N 60 I 16 23 34 WIGGINS 19 COMPLEX 67 28 F L 59 I I N N D T A 55 92 91 I A V N LAW SCHOOL E 25 N A U E A V E N U E 94 {5} 1. Administration Building {6} 66. McClellan Hall 39. Engineering Technology Lab Athletic Complexes West Hall Services 2. Agricultural Education 67. McKenzie - Merket Alumni Center 40. English Dan Law Baseball Field Academic Testing Services 3. Agricultural Pavilion 68. Meat Sciences Lab [Gordon W. 41. Exercise and Sport Sciences at Rip Griffin Park 4. Agricultural Sciences and Office of the Registrar Davis] 42. Experimental Sciences John Walker Soccer Complex Natural Resources (College Student Financial Aid 69. Mechanical Engineering 43. Fisheries and Wildlife Research Jones AT&T Football Stadium & Scholarships of) 70. Media & Communication [College 44. Food Technology McLeod Tennis Center Student Business Services 5. Agricultural Sciences and of] 45. Football Training Facility Natural Resources (College of) 71. Memorial Circle 46. Foreign Language Robert H. Ewalt Student Student Disability Services Annex 72. Moody Planetarium 47. Frazier Alumni Pavilion & Plaza Recreation Center TECHniques Center 6. Animal and Food Sciences 73. Murray Hall 48. Geriatric Education and Care Rocky Johnson Softball Complex Undergraduate Admissions 7. Architecture (College of) 74. Museum of Texas Tech University Center [Garrison] Terry & Linda Fuller Track & Field Visitors Center 8. Art - 3-D Studio 75. Music [School of] 49. Gordon Hall 9. Art (School of) United Spirit Arena 76. National Ranching Heritage Center 50. Greenhouse and Horticultural Wiggins Complex 10. Athletic Offices Residence Halls 77. National Wind Institute Garden Hospitality Services 11. Athletic Ticket Office 78. Parking Services [University] 51. Greek Circle Bledsoe Hall University Student Housing 12. Biology 79. Petroleum Engineering 52. Health Sciences Center Carpenter/Wells Complex Chitwood/Weymouth Hall University Career Center 13. Biology Greenhouse 80. Philosophy 53. Holden Hall 14. Biology Lecture Hall Coleman Hall 81. Physical Plant 54. Horn/Knapp Hall Gordon Hall 15. Bledsoe Hall 82. Plant Sciences 55. Hulen/Clement Hall Administration Building 16. Burkhart Center for Autism Horn/Knapp Hall 83. Police Department [Texas Tech] 56. Human Sciences [College of] Hulen/Clement Hall Graduate & International Education & Research 84. Psychology 57. Industrial Engineering Murray Hall Admissions, Room 328 17. Business Administation Rawls 85. Range, Wildlife and Fisheries 58. International Cultural Center Sneed Hall Office of the Chancellor [College of] Management [Goddard] 59. Kent R. Hance Chapel Stangel/Murdough Hall Office of the President 18. Carpenter/Wells Complex Talkington Hall 86. Science [Geosciences & Physics] 60. KTXT-TV PBS Station Office of the Provost 19. Chitwood/Weymouth Hall 87. Sneed Hall 61. Livermore Center Wall/Gates Hall 20. Chemical Engineering West Campus Hall 88. Southwest Collection/Special 62. Livestock Arena Student Union Building 21. Chemistry Collections Library 63. Lubbock City Bank Auditorium Student Services Barnes & Noble 22. Child Development Research 89. Stangel/Murdough Hall & Coliseum Military & Veterans, Drane 147 Center for Campus Life Center 90. Student Wellness Center 64. Marsha Sharp Center for Air Force ROTC, Holden Hall 003 23. Charles E. Maedgen Jr. Theatre 91. Talkington Hall Student Athletes Dean of Students 24. Civil & Enviromental 92. Wall/Gates Hall 65. Mathematics and Statistics Army ROTC, Media & Comm. Ombudsman Engineering 93. Weeks Hall 8th Floor Parent & Family Relations 25. Coleman Hall 94. West Campus Hall Points of Interest Red Raider Orientation 26. Computer Science 95. Wind Engineering Lab 27. Creative Movement Studio Frazier Alumni Pavilion & Plaza Red to Black Financial Services 28. Credit Union Greek Circle Spirit Squads [Texas Tech Federal] International Cultural Center Student Government Association 29. Dairy Barn Lubbock City Bank Auditorium Student Legal Services 30. Development & Coliseum Student Union & Activities 31. Doak Conference Center Kent R. Hance Chapel University ID Office 32. Doak Hall CHECK US OUT VIRTUALLY Moody Planetarium 33. Drane Hall - TTUISD AT WWW.YOUVISIT.COM/TTU 34. Education (College of) Museum of Texas Tech University 35. Electrical/Computer National Ranching Heritage Center Engineering 36. Electrical Engineering Addition 37.