College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dean: Peter W. Rabideau
Associate Dean: Zora D. Zimmerman
Associate Dean: Steven R. Rodermel
Associate Dean: Wolfgang H. Kliemann
Associate Dean Emerita: Ruth W. Swenson

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum

• Curriculum in Liberal Arts and Sciences

Majors, Minors & Electives Planning the Program of Study

• Curriculum in Music
• Curriculum in Liberal Studies

In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, students select from a wide and rich range of program options. The goal of the college is to prepare the student to enter the world beyond the university with skills in reasoning, analysis, and communication; with an appreciation of history and culture, an understanding of the challenges of the future, and a sensitivity toward people and their environments. To achieve this goal, the college asks students to acquire depth in learning within disciplines of their own choice, by way of single or multiple majors and breadth through elective courses and courses fulfilling general education requirements.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic home, the foundation, for many essential learning disciplines. The college provides students with all the components of a modern liberal education. Students may choose to study in various fields of the physical, biological, and social sciences; in mathematical disciplines; in methods and systems of communication; and in the arts and humanities.

The flexible degree requirements in the curriculum in Liberal Arts and Sciences permit programs of study suited to a variety of interests and goals. Students having academic interests not fully met by a departmental major may pursue a major offered by one of the College’s interdepartmental programs or may apply for an undergraduate major in interdisciplinary studies (See Index, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Cross-Disciplinary Studies). The college participates in the University Honors Program; thus, students of exceptional academic promise can develop unique and challenging programs of study.

The college has three curricula: a curriculum in Liberal Arts and Sciences, leading to the bachelor of arts or the bachelor of science degree; a curriculum in music, leading to the bachelor of music degree; and a curriculum in liberal studies, leading to the bachelor of liberal studies degree.

			High School Preparation/Admission Requirements
			Transfer Students
			University Requirements

Departments of the College

Air Force Aerospace Studies
Anthropology
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Botany
Chemistry
Computer Science
Economics
English
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
History
Mathematics
Military Science
Music
Naval Science
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Physics and Astronomy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
Zoology and Genetics

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