Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences is the liberal arts college at East Carolina University. Its Departments comprise courses of study in mathematics, the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

In 1941, the Board of Trustees approved an undergraduate degree program in liberal arts disciplines for students wanting to pursue a non-teaching degree. When East Carolina College was elevated to university status in 1967, the School of Arts and Sciences became the College of Arts and Sciences, the home of the liberal arts. The school is named for Thomas Harriot, a cartographer, historian, and surveyor who took part in Sir Walter Raleigh's second expedition to Virginia.

Organization
The Departments of the College are:
 * Anthropology
 * Biology
 * Chemistry
 * Economics
 * English
 * Foreign Languages and Literatures
 * Geography
 * Geology
 * History
 * Mathematics
 * Philosophy
 * Physics
 * Political Science
 * Psychology
 * Sociology
 * Urban and Regional Planning

There are interdisciplinary programs in:
 * Asian studies
 * African and African-American studies
 * Classical studies
 * Coastal and marine studies
 * The Great Books
 * Institute for Historical and Cultural Research (IHCR)
 * International studies
 * Medieval and Renaissance studies
 * North Carolinian studies
 * Religious studies
 * Russian studies
 * Security studies
 * Women's studies