College of Arts and Sciences

Robert Hinde, Interim Executive Dean
Beauvais Lyons, Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities
Kate Jones, Divisional Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Gina Owens, Interim Divisional Dean for Social Sciences
Charles R. Collins, Executive Associate Dean
Mike Blum, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity
Joe Miles, Associate Dean for Institutional Transformation
Todd Moore, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Liem Tran, Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Stephanie Wall, Executive Director of Finance and Human Resources
Maria Visconti, Senior Director of Space and Facilities
Shanna Pendergrast, Director of Advising Services
Amanda Womac, Director of Communications

The College of Arts and Sciences website
 

The College of Arts and Sciences is UT’s flagship college and the largest, most comprehensive, and most diverse of UT’s 14 colleges. Our academic departments and schools span the disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and the visual and performing arts.

We offer 58 programs and certificates. Of our 21 academic departments, 19 provide graduate certificates and/or six possible advanced degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Mathematics, Master of Science, and joint Master of Arts and Doctor of Jurisprudence.

Students in our college have opportunities for study abroad, research with faculty, community engagement, and internships unique to their academic and career goals. Research institutes and centers in the college include: Appalachian Justice Research Center, Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity, Center for Planetary Science and Exploration, Center for Social Theory, Center for the Study for Black Families and Children, Center for the Study of Tennesseans at War, Collaborative for Animal Behavior, Community of Scholars for Advancing Teaching Excellence, Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts, Forensic Anthropology Center, Institute for Climate and Community Resilience, National Institute for Modeling Biological Systems, Neuroscience Network of East Tennessee, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Plant Research Center.

Why the liberal arts?
The study of the humanities, arts, and sciences prepares difference makers in the world: leaders, innovators, discoverers, knowledge creators, change agents, and problem solvers.

A modern liberal arts education encourages intellectual curiosity and tolerance; dedication to the quest for knowledge; and cultivation of a responsible, creative, individual mind. Students learn how to ask questions, apply answers, and engage in finding solutions to address problems from the local to the global and beyond. Students develop the ability to reason and communicate clearly. They engage with the boundaries of knowledge and develop skills to confront the uncertainties of the human experience, including social and cultural issues, ethics, new technologies, and ongoing changes in the natural world.

The degrees available in the College of Arts and Sciences allow each student to develop a unique academic path combining career focus with exploration of the unknown. Graduates are well-prepared for a wide variety of further professional degrees in the health sciences, law, education, business, communication, public policy, urban planning, and a host of other fields, as well as immediate jobs.

Interdisciplinary Programs

In keeping with the philosophy that integration of knowledge is as important as proficiency in a given field, the College of Arts and Sciences has combined the resources of several departments and interests of the faculty members to offer a series of interdisciplinary graduate certificate programs that include Africana Studies , Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate , Justice Studies , Linguistics , Premodern Studies , and Women, Gender, and Sexuality .