Liberal Arts & Science College

Organized in 1959 from fourteen departments, the College of Liberal Arts an Sciences contained Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, English, Foreign Languages, History, Journalism, Library Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Social Sciences, and Speech. In 1961, the Departments of Economics, Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology replaced the Social Sciences Departments; however, in 1969 the College re-added social sciences as a curriculum major. The Department of Earth Sciences fragmented in 1970 into Geology and Geography, and in 1974 the Department of Library Science transferred into the newly established College of Professional Studies. The Speech Department has undergone a number of changes: in 1969 Theatre Arts separated from the department, in 1974 the Speech Pathology area branched off as the Department of Communicative Disorders to join the College of Professional Studies, and in 1981 the remaining Speech Communication branch became Communication Studies. The following year the College added a Computer Science department. As of 2001 the Liberal Arts and Sciences College was composed of the following departments: Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Economics, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Geography, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, History, Mathematical Sciences, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.

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