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A Message from the Dean's Office

Welcome to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences! With more than 5,000 undergraduate students, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is by far the largest of the six colleges at Rowan University. As Rowan University seeks to become the outstanding public comprehensive university in the region, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences remains at its core as we affirm the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences as the heart of liberal education and the basis for professional preparation.

The College provides General Education courses in the humanities, mathematics and the natural sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences. These courses give our students a breadth of knowledge while developing skills in oral and written communication, quantitative reasoning, computing, critical thinking, and research.

Our students go on to acquire a depth of knowledge in one of the major programs in the College. Expert faculty who have distinguished themselves in their disciplines through research, scholarship, and other professional activities help our students learn both in the classroom, through engaging lectures and interactive instructional approaches, and outside of the classroom, through laboratories and research projects. Our faculty care genuinely about the success of our students and make themselves available for advising, mentoring, and academic discussion.

The College also offers a pre-professional program in medicine and allied health. Articulation agreements between Rowan University and professional schools of dentistry, medicine, medical technology, optometry, podiatry and veterinary science help our students make a smooth transition to those schools.

The College offers several Interdisciplinary majors: Africana Studies, American Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Liberal Studies: Humanities and Social Science and Liberal Studies: Math & Sciences. The college also offers minors in most of the disciplines, and concentrations in several disciplines such as African American Studies, Asian Studies, , Cartography and Geography Information Systems, Environmental Studies, Ethics, International Studies, Urban Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. The minors and concentrations, along with free elective courses allow students to complete their major area of study in ways that are particularly appropriate to their individual interests and career goals.