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Mission Statement & Program Profile for

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences encompasses 23 departments and offers degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. 21 departments have Master of Arts or Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy programs. In addition to these degree programs, the College teaches courses that comprise the all-university general education requirement.

The departments in which the college offers work are: anthropology, chemistry, communication sciences, ecology and evolutionary biology, economics, English, geography, geology and geophysics, history, journalism, linguistics, marine sciences, mathematics, molecular and cell biology, modern and classical languages, national defense (Air Force aerospace studies and military science), philosophy, physics, physiology and neurobiology, political science, psychology, sociology, and statistics. Graduate work is available in 22 of the 23 departments in the College. The College also offers majors in: art history in cooperation with the School of Fine Arts, environmental science in cooperation with the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, mathematics combined with statistics, linguistics combined with philosophy, Latin American language and area studies, European studies, women's studies, and urban studies. Special programs include comparative literature, Judaic studies, medieval studies, peace studies, and Asian-American studies. Individualized majors involving two or more departments can be arranged. In addition the College prepares students to enter various professional schools including law, dental medicine, and medicine.

Associated with the College are the Museum of Natural History, the Biotechnology Center, the Electron Microscopy Laboratory, the Center for Oral History, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, the Institute for Medieval Studies, the Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection, the Connecticut Writing Project, the Urban Semester Program, the Center for Academic Programs, the Center for Contemporary African Studies, the Center for Actuarial Studies, the Institute for Puerto-Rican/Latino Studies, and the Institute for Asian-American Studies.

Program Profile Data for UConn - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Majors:		Fall 1994	Fall 1995	Fall 1996
	Undergraduate	6,362	6,086	5,895
	Master's	661	638	557
	Graduate - Health Center	195	211	215
	Doctoral	1,137	1,148	1,150
	Graduate - Health Center	118	113	115
	% UG Minority	14.9%	14.9%	14.9%
	% UG Out-of-State	17.1%	16.5%	16.4%
Course Enrollments:	Lower Division	18,505	18,746	18,705
	Upper Division	13,037	12,208	12,451
	Graduate	2,517	2,523	2,153
Credit Hours:	Lower Division	60,640	61,200	60,827
	Upper Division	40,086	38,229	38,241
	Graduate	7,278	7,392	6,327
	Independent Study	3,819	4,102	4,149
Faculty:	# Full-Time Teaching Faculty	470	471	449
	% Tenured	76.2%	77.7%	80.6%
	% Female	22.1%	22.5%	23.4%
	% Minority	8.9%	10.2%	10.2%
	FTE Faculty	481.44	460.57	455.86
Other Staff:	FTE Professional Support	114.32	117.53	125.44
	FTE Classified Support	71.13	68.36	63.80
	FTE Graduate Assistants	142.93	145.88	145.83
	Spec. Pay. Lecturers & G.A.s:	52.0%	52.9%	51.8%
	% of Teacher Contact Hours
	by Part-Time Staff
		June 1994	June 1995	June 1996
Degrees:		Sum 93-Spr 94	Sum 94-Spr 95	Sum 95-Spr 96
	Bachelor's²	1,347	1,278	1,211
	Master's	279	284	285
	Health Center	23	22	30
	Doctoral	125	128	103
	Health Center	16	17	16

^{1 Includes Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies.
^{2 Bachelor's degrees exclude Secondary Education graduates with Liberal Arts and Sciences disciplines (24 in 1993-94, 36 in 1994-95, and 28 in 1995-96) and Art History graduates whose degrees are conferred in this College (14 in 1993-94, 9 in 1994- 95, and 9 in 1995-96)but whose faculty and facilities are provided by the School of Fine Arts.}

Last Updated on 7/28/97

By Valerie Rogers - OIR, University of Connecticut

Email: oiradm14@uconnvm.uconn.edu}