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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS & PROGRAMS

The College comprises more than 20 departments across the liberal arts and sciences with a curriculum that challenges students to go beyond mastering subject matter to gaining real insight and a global perspective. CLAS offers interdisciplinary programs that enrich and diversify the educational experience and nine Centers of Excellence that encourage research collaboration across academic disciplines.

Augustine and Culture Seminar

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Biology

Chemistry

Classical Studies

Communication

Computing Sciences

Economics

Education and Counseling

English

Ethics

French and Francophone Studies

Geography and the Environment

Global Interdisciplinary Studies

History and Art History

Humanities

Italian Studies

Liberal Studies

Mathematics and Statistics

Philosophy

Physics

Political Science

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Public Administration

Sociology and Criminology

Spanish

Theatre and Studio Art

Theology and Religious Studies

Africana Studies

Arab and Islamic Studies

Asian Studies

Biochemistry

Cognitive Science

Comprehensive Science

Creative Writing

Cultural Studies

Gender and Women's Studies

Russian Area Studies

Latin American Studies

Irish Studies

Peace and Justice

Sustainability Studies

Writing and Rhetoric

The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest

Center for Arab and Islamic Studies

Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship

Center of Excellence in Enterprise Technology

Center for Irish Studies

Center for Peace and Justice Education

Center for Political Theology

Center for Statistics and Data Education Science

The Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good

The Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society

   

FACULTY RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

EQUAL EDUCATION

With her research focused on urban education, youth activism, education policy and school reform, Education professor Jerusha Conner, PhD, has been named a co-principal investigator on a two-year, $884,077 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project will build evidence of the value of student voice practices in improving student outcomes and creating more equitable learning environments. MORE...

STUDYING SUBWAY AIR QUALITY

A team of scientists in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has received a three-year, $346,692 grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine the health effects of human exposure to subway particles—with the hope that the findings can lead to how to remediate and improve subway air quality for workers and commuters. MORE...

REVIVING LITERARY CRITICISM PRACTICES

In a radical break from the interpretive practices that have dominated literary criticism for the past several decades, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" by English professor Alice Dailey, PhD, offers a fresh study of Shakespeare’s English history plays, expanding their context beyond the conditions of Shakespeare’s England. MORE...