About the College

Our Mission and Goals

The College of Arts and Humanities cultivates the appreciation and practice of forms of creative, intellectual, and cultural expression, the understanding of values and issues raised by those forms of expression, and the ability to think critically and to communicate effectively.

In order to realize its mission, the College has set the following goals:

• To offer quality undergraduate and graduate programs that engage students in effective learning communities and prepare them for professional careers or advanced study.
• To offer general education courses that encourage students to acquire disciplined habits of critical thinking and creative expression, thus enabling students to make and communicate enlightened judgments.
• To promote creative and scholarly expression through exhibitions, performances, lectures, and discussions that will engage the campus and the general public in the arts and humanities.
• To offer students opportunities to engage in meaningful practice within their disciplines.
• To engage in scholarship, research, and creative activity--using appropriate technologies--that will contribute to faculty development and to the professions and society.
• To provide advising and support services that will aid students in academic and career planning.
• To encourage students to be lifelong learners who recognize the interrelatedness of all knowledge in a diverse, global society.

Our Departments and Programs

The College includes eight academic departments and three programs with majors leading to baccalaureate degrees.  The College also houses the Liberal Studies Program.  For more information about majors and minors in the College, please visit our Departments and Programs page.

Our Faculty

In addition to teaching and mentoring students, the faculty of the College of Arts and Humanities are actively engaged in research projects, exhibits, performance, and publication.  Faculty from all departments and programs present regularly at local, state, regional, and national conferences.  Faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities have also been recognized regionally and nationally for their accomplishments and have received numerous grants, scholarships, and teaching fellowships.

Our Students

Students within the College have the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities sponsored by one or more departments.  Both majors and non-majors may participate in any of the extra- or co-curricular activities that our departments sponsor.