The Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences is the college of arts and sciences at Ohio University, a publicresearch university in Athens, Ohio. The original of the university's eleven academic colleges, it 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
McGuffey Hall in the foreground and Wilson Hall in the background, home of the College.Ohio University Greenhouse[3]A lecture hall in Morton Hall used for arts and sciences instruction.
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.[4]
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:
