Organization of the college

Largest of the seven colleges at BGSU, the College of Arts and Sciences includes two schools (art and communication studies) and 19 academic departments, as well as twelve formally organized interdisciplinary program areas. The academic departments span the range of the traditional disciplines in the arts and humanities, languages, sciences and mathematics, and social sciences.

A strong faculty of more than 400 full-time teacher/scholars offers general and specialized instruction leading to six different undergraduate degrees: the bachelor of arts, the bachelor of science, the bachelor of liberal studies, the bachelor of fine arts, the bachelor of arts in communication and the bachelor of science in journalism. Under these six degree programs, students may choose from more than 70 different major fields and an equal number of minor fields. These wide-ranging choices provide ample opportunity to pursue individual interests and needs. All programs unite the common characteristics of combining breadth of intellectual inquiry with the specialized instruction that students need to seek either immediate and meaningful post-baccalaureate employment or preparation for graduate or professional study.