Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts & Sciences of Ohio University is one of eleven colleges at Ohio University, centrally located in Wilson Hall on the College Green in Athens, Ohio.[1] The college features twenty organized academic departments.[2] Additionally, it hosts two centers for its International Studies and Law, Justice & Culture programs. The current dean is economist Florenz Plassman.[3]

History
McGuffey Hall in the foreground and Wilson Hall in the background, home of the College.

The first diplomas awarded by the university, two in all, were Bachelor of Arts and Science degrees. The university's first course offerings included Latin, Greek, rhetoric, English grammar, geography, logic, philosophy, literature, classics, astronomy, and various branches of mathematics, all of which still are offered in the College of Arts & Sciences. But since a liberal arts curriculum was all the university offered, the College of Arts & Sciences did not exist as a discrete entity until the university grew to include other colleges; it became a truly separate college—the College of Liberal Arts—in 1902.[4]

Faculties

Undergraduate students depend on the College of Arts & Sciences for a range of courses in the liberal arts, including required coursework in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences as the foundation for any degree they pursue within the university. Faculty in this college contribute substantial amounts of literature through Ohio University Press and imprint Swallow Press. The college features:

References
  1. "Wilson Hall, College Green, Ohio University". Ohio University. 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  2. "A&S Academic Departments". www.ohio.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  3. "About the College of Arts & Sciences Dean". www.ohio.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  4. Ohio University 1804-2004: Spirit of a Singular Place. Betty Hollow. 2004.
  5. "The Philosophical Gourmet Report, M.A. Programs in Philosophy".
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