UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) is the largest college in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, created in 1913 through the merger of the College of Literature and Arts and the College of Science.^[1] It has nationally ranked programs in chemistry, psychology and speech communications. Its main offices are in Lincoln Hall, and most of the classes that occur on the Main Quad are LAS classes. The college differs from the other colleges on campus in that its students have an extra requirement to fulfill in order to obtain a minor. The college also used to have its own general education requirements that differed from the campus-wide list, but this was eliminated with the university-wide introduction of the UI-Integrate system.

LAS administration includes a dean, appointed by the University's Board of Trustees, several associate and assistant deans and directors for various functions.^[2] As of the end of 2005 LAS contained 54 constituent departments, more than 17,000 students and 1,300 faculty and staff.^[3] The College has published an alumni-targeted periodical, LASNews, since at least 1999.^[4]

Academic Units

Biological, Physical & Quantitative Sciences

Animal Biology
Astronomy
Atmospheric Sciences
Biochemistry
Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
Cell and Developmental Biology
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
School of Chemical Sciences
Chemistry
Entomology

Geology
Geography/GIS
School of Integrative Biology
Mathematics
Microbiology
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Neuroscience
Plant Biology
Statistics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Center for African Studies
African American Studies and Research Program
American Indian Studies Program
Asian American Studies Program
Unit for Cinema Studies
Program in Comparative and World Literature
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Division of English as an International Language
Gender and Women's Studies Program
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

Intensive English Institute
International Studies
Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Latina/Latino Studies Program
Program in Medieval Studies
Native American House
Program for the Study of Religion
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Center for Writing Studies

Humanities & Arts

Classics
East Asian Languages and Cultures
English
French
Germanic Languages and Literatures
History
Italian

Linguistics
Philosophy
Portuguese
Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE)
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Spanish
Speech Communication

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Anthropology
Center for the Study of Democratic Governance
Economics
Economics, MS in Policy Econ
Geography
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology

Alumni

Molly Melching

External links

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

References

^ LAS: About Us: History. University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Retrieved on 2006-04-08.
^ LAS: About Us: Administration. University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Retrieved on 2006-04-08.
^ Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Dean of LAS. "A Letter to Our Alumni". LASNews (Fall/Winter 2005-2006).
^ LAS Alumni: News : Archive. University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Retrieved on 2006-04-08.

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