Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts & Sciences of Ohio University is a college of Ohio University, a public research university in Athens, Ohio. It is one of its eleven colleges and is centrally located in Wilson Hall on the College Green. The college features twenty organized academic departments. Additionally, it hosts two centers for its International Studies and Law, Justice & Culture programs.

History


The first diplomas awarded by Ohio 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.

Departments
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:


 * African American Studies
 * Biological Sciences
 * Center for International Studies
 * Center for Law, Justice & Culture (Undergraduate Certificate and freestanding M.A. program)
 * Chemistry & Biochemistry
 * Classics & Religious Studies
 * Economics
 * English Language & English Literature
 * Environmental & Plant Biology
 * Geography
 * Geological Sciences
 * History
 * Linguistics
 * Mathematics
 * Modern Languages
 * Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE)
 * Philosophy
 * Physics & Astronomy
 * Political Science
 * Psychology
 * Sociology & Anthropology
 * Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies