Type Private Academic staff 519 Location Nashville, TN, USA Undergraduate tuition and fees 40,320 USD (2011) Dean Lauren Benton | Established 1873 Undergraduates 3,843 Dean Lauren Benton Total enrollment 4,238 (2011) | |
Address Kirkland Hall, 2201 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37235, USA Similar Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University Medical, Belmont University, Meharry Medical College | ||
The College of Arts and Science is a liberal arts college at Vanderbilt University located in Nashville, Tennessee. The College confers the Bachelor of Arts degree on undergraduates, and, in conjunction with the Graduate School, the Master of Arts, Master of Science, and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees on graduate students. The College occupies nearly 1.1 million square feet in 23 buildings across the Nashville campus.
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Academics
The College provides a liberal-arts-based education that requires the completion of 14 courses. The general requirements of the curriculum are outlined in the AXLE (Achieving Excellence in Liberal Education) framework. These include courses in Humanities and the Creative Arts, International Cultures (along with proficiency in a foreign language), History and Culture of the United States, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Perspectives, and three writing courses.
The College provides academic resources and funding to several research centers, including the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, and the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies.
The most popular majors are economics; medicine, health, and society; political science; neuroscience, and psychology. The College also provides advising for pre-professional tracks, such as pre-med, pre-law, and pre-nursing.
Undergraduate programs
The College's undergraduate course offerings include majors in African American and Diaspora studies; American studies; Ancient Mediterranean studies; anthropology; art; art history; biological sciences; chemistry; classical languages; classics; communication of science and technology; communication studies; comparative literature; earth and environmental sciences; East Asian studies; ecology, evolution, and organismal biology; economics; economics and history; English; English and history; European studies; film studies; French; French and European studies; German; German studies; history; history of art; Jewish studies; Latin American and Iberian studies; mathematics; medicine, health, and society (MHS); molecular and cellular biology; neuroscience; philosophy; physics; political science; psychology; public policy studies; religious studies; Russian; Russian studies; Russian and European studies; sociology; Spanish; Spanish and Portuguese; Spanish, Portuguese, and European studies; theatre; and women’s and gender studies.
Graduate programs
The College offers graduate degrees (M.A, M.S., M.F.A., M.L.A.S, Ph.D.) in the following: anthropology, astrophysics, biochemistry, biological sciences, chemical and physical biology, chemistry, classical studies, economic development, earth and environmental sciences, economics, English, French, German, history, history and critical theories of religion, history of art, Latin American studies, liberal arts and science, mathematics, MHS, neuroscience, philosophy, physics, political science, Portuguese, psychological sciences, sociology, Spanish, and Spanish/Portuguese.
The graduate school also offers certificate programs in American studies, gender studies, Jewish studies, Latin American studies, and MHS.