2023-2024 Graduate Catalog College of Arts and Sciences

The primary purpose of the College of Arts and Sciences is to provide a broadly based educational program in the liberal arts and sciences. The College includes the Departments of Chemistry; Communication Sciences and Disorders; Economics; English; Geography, Geology, and the Environment; History; Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Mathematics; Philosophy; Physics; Politics and Government; Psychology; Sociology and Anthropology; and the Schools of Biological Sciences, Communication, and Social Work, as well as programs in African-American Studies, Latin American and Latino/a Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The College offers the core of the General Education program required of all undergraduates, a wide range of academic major and minor programs for meeting baccalaureate degree requirements, master's programs in most disciplines, and doctoral programs in Audiology, Biological Sciences, English Studies, Mathematics Education, and School Psychology. Course offerings span the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, mathematics, and natural sciences.