Education in Action
Your college education is more than preparing for a professional career. It's exploring topics that interest you. It's evaluating new ideas. It's discovering your place in the world. It's challenging yourself to grow intellectually and personally. It's allowing you to adapt the skills you have and those you will learn to do something you are passionate about.
The College of Arts and Sciences offers a wide range of study in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and the natural sciences. Students can explore their individual intellectual interests and develop skills that lead to rewarding professional opportunities.
The College strives each day to live its mission:
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The faculty and students of the College of Arts and Sciences share the commitment to advancing the study and practice of the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and the natural and applied sciences. We fulfill our commitment through teaching, scholarship, creative work, and outreach. In faculty and student research, we generate new knowledge. In our teaching, publications, presentations to peers, and engagements with private and public organizations, we disseminate and share our knowledge."Bachelor of Arts with majors in:
- Economics
- Applied Psychology
- Communication
- Global Studies
- History
- Literary and cultural studies
- Politics and Law
- Sociology
Bachelor of Science with majors in:
The College of Arts and Sciences also offers 23 minors, a concentration in Spanish, and minors in Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish through the Department of Modern Languages.
Students in the arts and sciences have the opportunity to combine their major with a broad selection of more than 80 areas of study at Bryant. They also have the advantage of earning a Business Administration minor.
In each of their four years, students in the arts and sciences participate in special programs designed to prepare them for personal and professional success:
- Programs in the first year help students discover their personal strengths and individual passions.
- Second-year programs help students explore their place in the world. These programs include the Sophomore International Experience, which prepares students for the opportunities and challenges of an increasingly global environment.
- Juniors and seniors continue their personal development through on-campus programming, service learning opportunities, internships, and a senior practicum. Through these activities, students develop marketable skills and gain hands-on experience in one or more professional fields associated with their major.
The academic programs in Bryant's College of Arts and Sciences are perhaps best described as "education in action." The truly distinctive opportunities available to our arts and sciences students prepare them for success in a variety of settings and enable them to develop a clear plan for the next step in life - whether that step is graduate school or a professional position in their chosen field.
The College of Arts and Sciences is a member of the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU), the leading national association that supports the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.
