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The mission of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences is to enable students to explore areas of knowledge and reflect critically and creatively on aesthetic forms and on intellectual and cultural practices. Graduates can conduct research, substantiate arguments, and communicate in the broadest possible socio-historical, literary and scientific contexts. The school's primary goal is for its students to make continuing contributions as critical thinkers and creative professionals.
Critical & Visual Studies
The Critical and Visual Studies program’s mission is to prepare students to think critically and act creatively in the cultural world through lively and demanding engagement with cultural objects and institutions. Curricular and co-curricular activities provide students with a critical and historically informed understanding of how culture is made and lived; the ability to develop and integrate written, oral, visual, spatial, and kinesthetic expression through student-initiated projects; and opportunities to further integrate theory and practice and make links between academic work and the working world through internships in cultural institutions.
English and Humanities
In the English and Humanities Department, we offer a variety of courses—freshman English, literature, communications, music, theater, film, foreign languages, and creative writing. What unites them, giving them continuity, is our mission: to recognize and foster the relationship between visual and written texts; to instill within students critical thinking, reading, and writing skills that will inspire them in their professional lives for intellectual and creative growth; and to promote understanding and appreciation for the diverse cultures within the U.S. and throughout the world.
The Intensive English Program
The Intensive English Program (IEP) provides academic English language instruction to matriculated graduate and undergraduate students. In addition, two certificate programs run under the IEP’s umbrella: the full-time Certificate (CEP) and Summer (SCP) Programs. The mission of all programs in the IEP is to support successful matriculation of international students by providing appropriate English language instruction. Internal assessment and advisement ensures students’ proper placement in English language courses, as well as successful matriculation and degree attainment. The curriculum includes art, design, and architecture content and is enhanced by direct exposure to related cultural experiences and language-learning technology.
Mathematics and Science
The mission of the Department of Mathematics and Science is threefold. The first is to acquaint students with scientific methodologies, critical thinking, and the history of scientific thought. The second is to address the interface between science and art, architecture, and design, whether it be through the physics of light, the chemistry of color, the biology of form, or the mathematics of symmetry. The third is to educate students so that they can respond intelligently and critically to today's new developments in science and technology and to make informed decisions regarding current scientific matters which affect public policy issues and ethics.
Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media
Writing for Publication, Performance and Media’s goal is the creation of well-rounded writers, writers able to produce ad copy as well as fiction, journalism as well as poetry, web content as well as screenplays, html as well as book and film reviews. At the heart of the curriculum are the Writing Studios, through which students progress from word choice, grammar and clarity of expression to more advanced narrative and poetic forms and specialized genres, culminating in the creation of a book-length work of prose, poetry or experimental form. The practice of writing is undergirded by studies in literature, cultural studies, science, and history.
Social Science and Cultural Studies
The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies trains students to bring critical and analytical skills to bear on the social world and on their professional and artistic work. Through the perspectives of social science, history, philosophy, and cultural studies, students explore the cultural achievements of humankind and the social forces which have influenced the development of culture and human personality. A core curriculum develops understanding of historical relationships among world cultures, ideas, and institutions. Electives provide interdisciplinary approaches and intellectual diversity that foster critical examination of the political, social, and economic forces at work in the processes of cultural production.