博彩网址大全’s 文理学院 will educate your whole self — mind, body, heart, and spirit — to prepare you for a future in a rapidly changing world.
Across our many majors, the 文理学院 offers wide-ranging courses that serve as the framework for you to become a citizen of the world.
You can study the human brain, living organisms and their interactions with the environment, political, social, economic systems, historical, religious, philosophical ideas, mathematical models and data science, as well as the varied expressions of artistic creativity and human culture. All of our programs offer unique opportunities that allow you to develop your interests and coursework in ways that prepare you for professional employment and a successful future. 无论你选择什么专业， you can bring your passions and your whole self to the 文理学院.
Additionally, your specialized education in your major is integrated with 博彩网址大全’s Undergraduate Core Curriculum, which helps you to further examine the nature and substance of the individual person, as well as the essence of human creativity and imagination. 的 Core will also help you understand the social and institutional structures of the 我们生活的世界.
Your education in the 文理学院 will prepare you to make value-centered, ethically-based judgments as it develops and trains you to enter your vocational future 作为变革的有效领导者.
As dean of the oldest and largest college at 博彩网址大全, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 文理学院 and tell you about some of the many accomplishments and successes that make us proud of the work we do. 尽管 challenges brought about by the pandemic, we continue to welcome record numbers of freshman and transfer students to the college. 这些学生选择从 a variety of majors, we have growth in all our disciplines cutting across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Our students get to learn from a talented, dedicated and award-winning faculty who challenge our students to engage with their coursework and disciplinary content in innovative ways.
例如，丹·科兹洛夫斯基博士.D., chair of the Department of Communication, is a 2021年的获奖者 爱默生卓越教学奖 每年分发给圣. Louis area educators who demonstrate significant contributions 对学生的学习. 教授 Kozlowski teaches courses in journalism and media ethics as part of our major in communication.
Our faculty and student research continues to be impressive. 整个学院的教职工， including two faculty from our Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, 艾米•莱特 Ph.D., 丹·尼古拉, Ph.D., have each received prestigious awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support their scholarship and teaching. 艾莉森·米勒博士.D.教授, 生物学的，与 Donald Danforth植物科学中心 位于St. 路易斯收到了12美元.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the New Roots for Restoration Biology Integration Institute. 助理 教授 of Music Stephanie Tennill has developed a specialized face mask, the VocalEase面具, that allows for both COVID protection and the full range of motion and breath support 适合音乐家和舞台剧演员. 内斯·桑多瓦尔博士.D.他是社会学系的教授 and Anthropology, uses emerging geospatial technology and computational spatial science methods to study social, economic and environmental patterns of inequality. 教授 Sandoval also serves as the associate director of 博彩网址大全’s Geospatial Institute (Geo博彩网址大全), a consortium of faculty and students from across the University engaged in geospatial 研究、培训和创新.
的se achievements are only a small sample of the many ways in which the College of Arts and Sciences lives out the larger 博彩网址大全 mission to pursue truth for the greater glory of God and for the service of humanity. 我们的成功在一个时期 of rapid change and disruption serves as an important reminder that the education we offer, motivated and guided by Jesuit spiritual and intellectual ideals, is an education that provides our students with the tools to meet the unknown demands of 充满信心的未来. Thank you for your interest in our work in the college and for your support and personal witness to our mission.
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唐娜J. 拉瓦,Ph值.D.
院长兼教授
文理学院