Faculty Handbook
College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the Graduate School (GRS), 725/705 Commonwealth Avenue, provide coursework and degree programs in all areas of undergraduate and graduate education in the liberal arts and sciences.
Undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) enroll for the B.A. degree with concentrations offered by twenty-three departments in addition to interdisciplinary programs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Environmental Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Russian and East European Studies, and American Studies.
Students enrolling in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GRS) study for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in virtually all traditional areas of the arts and sciences as well as in Applied Linguistics, African American Studies, Energy and Environmental Studies, Marine Science, Creative Writing, African Studies, and other interdisciplinary programs.
The combined B.A./M.A. program is offered jointly by CAS and GRS, and undergraduates in the professional schools and colleges take many of their courses in CAS. There are many joint M.A. and Ph.D. programs between GRS and the professional schools and colleges, and the School of Theology participates with GRS in its Division of Religious and Theological Studies.
Administration
| Deans | |
|---|---|
| Dean | Virginia Sapiro |
| Senior Associate Dean CAS | Susan Jackson |
| Associate Dean GRS | J. Scott Whitaker |
| Associate Deans | Loren J. Samons II |
| Juliana Walsh | |
| Diana Wylie | |
| Assistant Deans | James Johnson |
| Michael Prince | |
At a Glance
| Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate FTE enrollment | 7,296 |
| Graduate FTE enrollment | 832 |
| Nondegree FTE enrollment | 226 |
| Total FTE enrollment | 8,393 |
| Full-time faculty | 716 |
| Part-time faculty | 169 |
