Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences explained

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.^[1] The college features twenty organized academic departments.^[2] 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.^[3]

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^[4]
• Biological Sciences^[5]
• Center for International Studies^[6]
• Center for Law, Justice & Culture^[7] (Undergraduate Certificate and freestanding M.A. program)
• Chemistry & Biochemistry^[8]
• Classics & Religious Studies^[9]
• Economics^[10]
• English Language & English Literature^[11]
• Environmental & Plant Biology^[12]
• Geography^[13]
• Geological Sciences^[14]
• History^[15]
• Linguistics^[16]
• Mathematics^[17]
• Modern Languages^[18]
• Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE)^[19]
• Philosophy^{[20] [21]}
• Physics & Astronomy^[22]
• Political Science^[23]
• Psychology^[24]
• Sociology & Anthropology^[25]
• Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies^[26]

Research centers

College-wide

• The George Washington Forum on Ideas sponsors exchanges on a wide range of analytics, debates, and topics.^[27]
• The Center for International Studies was established in 1964.^[28]
• The Global Leadership Center engages students from any major in a wide variety of global impact projects during their studies.^[29]
• The Center for Law, Justice and Culture examines cultural aspects of law and society.^[30]

Departmental institutes

Within its departments, the College sponsors:

• The African American Research and Service Institute
• The Astrophysical Institute^[31]
• The Center for Intelligent Chemical Instrumentation
• The Center for Ring Theory and Its Applications
• The Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities
• The Contemporary History Institute
• The Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics
• The Institute for Quantitative Biology
• The Institute for the Empirical Study of Language
• The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics^[32]
• The Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute^[33]
• The Ohio University Cartographic Center

External links

• Official website
• Official Athletics website

Notes and References

1. News: Wilson Hall, College Green, Ohio University. Ohio University . 2013. 2 February 2013.
2. Web site: A&S Academic Departments. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-03-19.
3. Ohio University 1804-2004: Spirit of a Singular Place. Betty Hollow. 2004.
4. Web site: Department of African American Studies. en. 2022-06-04.
5. Web site: Department of Biological Sciences. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
6. Web site: Center for International Studies. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
7. Web site: Center for Law, Justice & Culture. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
8. Web site: Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
9. Web site: Department of Classics & Religious Studies. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
10. Web site: Department of Economics. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
11. Web site: Department of English. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
12. Web site: Department of Environmental & Plant Biology. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
13. Web site: Department of Geography. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
14. Web site: Department of Geological Sciences. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
15. Web site: Department of History. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
16. Web site: Department of Linguistics. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
17. Web site: Department of Mathematics. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
18. Web site: Department of Modern Languages. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
19. Web site: Ohio Program of Intensive English. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
20. Web site: The Philosophical Gourmet Report, M.A. Programs in Philosophy.
21. Web site: Department of Philosophy. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
22. Web site: Department of Physics & Astronomy. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
23. Web site: Department of Political Science. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
24. Web site: Department of Psychology. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
25. Web site: Department of Sociology & Anthropology. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
26. Web site: Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
27. Web site: The George Washington Forum . gwfohio.org . March 14, 2022.
28. Web site: Center for International Studies . Internationalstudies.ohio.edu . October 3, 2012 . July 4, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150704154450/http://www.internationalstudies.ohio.edu/ . live .
29. Web site: Ohio University Global Leadership Center. December 26, 2023. December 26, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231226230242/https://www.ohio.edu/cis/glc. live.
30. Web site: Center for Law, Justice & Culture. www.ohio.edu. en. 2022-06-04.
31. Web site: The Astrophysical Institute. ohiou.edu. May 18, 2019. November 28, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181128042901/http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~astro/astro.html. dead.
32. Web site: The ohiou.edu domain has been decommissioned – Ohio University. www.ohio.edu. May 18, 2019. November 18, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191118175654/https://www.ohio.edu/oit/web/websites/custom-web-addresses/decommissioned. dead.
33. Web site: Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute. www.ohio.edu. en. February 28, 2017. September 23, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200923123051/https://www.ohio.edu/cas/nqpi. live.