Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts

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Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts is a college of Texas A&M University at College Station.

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[edit] About the College

The College of Liberal Arts offers courses in social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and the performing arts, and is a major source of international education.

[edit] Academics

  • The College has the largest collegiate faculty on campus, and the professors are dedicated to ensuring quality education for a dynamic, evolving student body.
  • The College houses 12 departments and offers both discipline specific and interdisciplinary degrees.
  • 12 departments with 7,032 majors (the second-largest college at Texas A&M University) and
  • 320 tenured or tenure-track faculty, among the largest of all colleges at Texas A&M University
  • 44 degree programs: 23 bachelors, 11 masters, 10 Ph.D.s.
  • 3 interdisciplinary majors:
    • American Studies
    • Comparative Literature and Culture
    • International Studies
  • 9 interdisciplinary minors:
    • Africana Studies
    • Classical Studies
    • Comparative Cultural Studies
    • Comparative Literature
    • Film Studies
    • Hispanic Studies
    • Journalism
    • Religious Studies
    • Women's Studies

[edit] Support

  • >$39 million budget, augmented by $5.5 million in competitively awarded extramural funding
  • >$1.2 million income from permanent endowments that total more than $24 million
  • Endowments: 11 chairs, 23 professorships, and 9 faculty and graduate fellowships
  • 33,000 living alumni, 61 percent of whom have been graduated since 1990

[edit] Faculty Awards/Honors

  • 56 Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award recipients since 1975
    • 41 teaching awards
    • 14 research awards
    • 1 administration award
  • 5 Regents Professor Service Awards
  • 2 Texas A&M University Presidential Professors for Teaching Excellence
  • 7 Distinguished Professors (highest faculty rank)
  • 15 Recipients of Individual Recognition

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