School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Through the Core Curriculum and a host of majors, minors, and concentrations, the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences provides students at Columbia College Chicago with the intellectual, analytical, and creative capacity to succeed in whatever field they choose to pursue.
We house the college’s LAS Core—a set of curricular requirements for all undergraduate students seeking a degree at Columbia. These engaging courses in literature, history, humanities, languages, mathematics, and the sciences complement any major field of study and challenge students to think in independent, critical, and diverse ways.
The School of LAS offers undergraduate degrees in Art and Materials Conservation, ASL-English Interpretation, Creative Writing – Nonfiction, Creative Writing – Poetry, Cultural Studies, and Early Childhood Education, as well as other intellectually challenging opportunities, such as undergraduate research and the Honors Program.
In addition to undergraduate degree programs, we offer graduate degrees in Creative Writing – Nonfiction, Creative Writing – Poetry, and Education.
| Reception Recognizes College’s First Honors Program Graduates The eight students who graduated with Honors this Spring represent the first cohort to complete the college’s Honors Program. | Education Department Relaunches Web site The new site is the result of a collaboration among faculty and staff from the Education Department, the Office of Web Development, and the Office of the Dean in the School of LAS. | Larissa Mulholland Named Director of ECE Program Mulholland has taught at Columbia for six years and coordinated the Education Department’s reaccreditation with the state of Illinois. |
| Marianne C. Stallworth Has Book Published The book, School Staff Perception of Professional Development, Two Case Studies, was published in February by Lambert Academic Publishing. | Jim DeRogatis Quoted in Washington Post Blog The blog entry, published on April 19, addressed musician Ted Nugent’s recent comments at the annual conference of National Rifle Association, which lambasted President Obama’s leadership. | Jonn Salovaara and Qween Wicks Awarded Fellowships The pair were awarded the Timothy J. Densmore Faculty Fellowship following the completion of a 2010/2011 Service-Learning Course Conversion workshop. |










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