University of Illinois at Chicago College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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dean = Dwight A. McBride
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students =10548 [ [http://www.dria.uic.edu/quickfacts/QuickFactsEnrollbyCollege.htm UIC Enrollments by College] ] (2007)
undergrad =9333 (2007)
postgrad =1215 (2007)
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city =Chicago
state =IL
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website =http://www.las.uic.edu
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a school at the University of Illinois at Chicago offering both undergraduate and graduate programs of study.

About

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences predates the current campus, having been founded in 1946 at the [ [http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/ua/pdf/UIC_LAS_History.pdf University Archives - Liberal Arts and Sciences History] ] . However, at that time liberal arts education was overseen by an associate dean. In 1964, as the University was being reconstituted at the Circle Campus, the Board of Trustees approved a full-fledged college with seventeen departments.

Today, the college has 41 undergraduate and 39 graduate programs in 26 academic departments and 6 research centers [cite web
title = 2007-2009 Academic Catalog - Liberal Arts and Sciences
publisher = University of Illinois at Chicago
url = http://www.uic.edu/ucat/catalog/LA.shtml
accessdate = 2008-05-11] [cite web
title = Graduate and Professional Degree Programs
publisher = University of Illinois at Chicago
url = http://www.uic.edu/gcat/GPDP
accessdate = 2008-05-11] .

Departments

The college has twenty six departments in three groups: humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

* "Humanities": African American Studies; Classics and Mediterranean Studies; Communications; English; Gender and Women's Studies; Germanic Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures; and, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese
* "Natural Sciences": Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science; and, Physics
* "Social Sciences": Anthropology; Criminology, Law, and Justice; Economics; History; Political Science; Psychology; and, Sociology.

Institutes and Centers

Research

References

External links

* [http://www.las.uic.edu/ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences]