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Undergraduate Studies

Offering Students Transformational Learning Experiences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences remains committed to and passionate about its mission to provide a transformational learning experience for all its students.

A talented, diverse, and caring faculty, who support and contribute to the College’s mission and values, remains at the core of the College’s efforts to mentor and motivate tomorrow’s leaders today. Teacher and student work together, and, as St. Augustine wrote, come to dwell in each other, each learning from the other in the pursuit of knowledge and discovery.

Below please find an alphabetical list of all the academic departments and programs within the College, along with the degree pursuits and other offerings they provide to the College and University as a whole.

Department/Program Major Minor 1 Conc. 2 5-Yr
Comb.
3 Grad.
Cert.
Graduate
Africana Studies   √ √      
Applied Statistics       √   MS
Arab and Islamic Studies BA √ √      
Arabic Studies   √        
Art History BA √        
Asian Studies     √      
Astronomy and Astrophysics BS √        
Augustine and Culture Seminar Program            
Augustine in Dialogue with Faith and Culture     √      
Biochemistry BS   √      
Bioengineering   √        
Biology BS √   √ √ MA/MS
Business   √        
Chemistry BS √   √   MS
Chinese Studies   √        
Classical Studies BA √   √   MA
Cognitive Science   √ √      
Communication BA √   √ √ MA
Comprehensive Science Program BS          
Computing Science BS √   √ √ MS/MTM
Counseling
        √ MS
Criminology
BA √        
Cultural Studies BA          
Economics BA √        
Education BA √   √   MA
English BA √     √ MA
Environmental Science BS          
Environmental Studies BA √        
Ethics Program   √ √      
French and Francophone Studies BA √        
Gender and Women's Studies BA √        
Geography and the Environment
BA √        
History BA √     √ MA
Honors Program BAH/BSH   √      
Human Resource Development       √ √ MS
Human Services BA √        
Humanities BA √        
Institute for Global Interdisciplinary Studies BA √        
Information Science   √        
Irish Studies     √      
Italian Studies BA √        
Japanese Studies   √        
Latin American Studies BA √        
Liberal Studies       √   MA
Mathematics & Statistics
BS √   √ √ MA
Military Science   √        
Naval Science   √        
Peace and Justice   √ √      
Philosophy BA √       MA/Ph.D.
Physics BA/BS √        
Political Science BA √   √ √ MA
Portugese Studies            
Psychology BA √   √   MS
Public Administration         √ MPA
Romance Languages and Literatures           MA
Russian Studies   √ √      
Russian Area Studies   √ √      
Secondary Education
BA
√        
Sociology BA √        
Spanish Studies BA √   √    
Teacher Certification     √      
Theatre   √     √ MA
Theology and Religious Studies BA √   √   MA
Writing & Rhetoric   √ √      

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Laptop Program

Since Fall 2006, all full-time students at Villanova University will receive a Dell laptop computer. This program is managed by the University Information Technology (UNIT) department.

For more information please visit the Laptop Program website.

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An Unceasing Commitment to Undergraduate Education

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Since its creation in 1842, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences distinguishes itself from its peers with an unwavering dedication to undergraduate education. A true emphasis on undergraduate education allows students to study with faculty who are experts in their fields so that they gain a deep understanding of the fundamentals of critical insight, mature judgment, and independent thinking, and a sense of the importance of values and the moral responsibility of caring for others and working for the betterment of society.

The academic majors, minors, and concentrations offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reflect the College’s mission to provide all of its students with an interdisciplinary and diversified academic program and core curriculum, which offer its students a scale of well-defined universal values that equips them to be wise critics of the society in which they live.

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