UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Psychology Building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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, physics, and 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

Actuarial Science Animal Biology Astronomy Atmospheric Sciences School of Earth, Society and Environment 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 The majority of University of Illinois alumni who go on to enter medical school are alumni of this School[5] 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 Global Studies (Previously known as International Studies) Program in Jewish Culture and Society Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department of Latina/Latino Studies Program in Medieval Studies Native American House Program for the Study of Religion Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Center for 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 Intensive English Institute Italian

Linguistics Philosophy Portuguese Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) Slavic Languages and Literatures Spanish 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
• Hugh Hefner
• Roger Ebert

External links

• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

References

1. "LAS: About Us: History". University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 2005-10-23. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
2. "LAS: About Us: Administration". University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 2005-12-19. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
3. Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Dean of LAS. "A Letter to Our Alumni". LASNews (Fall/Winter 2005–2006).
4. "LAS Alumni: News : Archive". University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 2006-02-10. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
5. Gillespie, William (Spring 2010). "MCB is the University of Illinois’ most popular pre-med curriculum". Mcb (4) (School of Molecular and Cellular Biology). pp. 2–3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2010.

Coordinates: 40°6′24″N 88°13′42″W / 40.10667°N 88.22833°W