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Academics facts
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is Iowa State University's
largest college and includes 22 academic departments and one professional
school. LAS offers majors in the humanities, social sciences, physical
sciences, biological sciences and mathematical sciences. Every undergraduate
at Iowa State University takes courses from the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences.
Academic departments offering undergraduate majors and/or minors or
graduate programs in the College include anthropology; biochemistry,
biophysics & molecular biology; ecology, evolution & organismal
biology; chemistry; computer science; economics; English; geological
& atmospheric sciences; Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication;
history; mathematics; military science; music; naval science; philosophy
& religious studies; physics & astronomy; political science;
psychology; sociology; statistics; world languages and cultures.
Various academic programs are offered within LAS including African
American Studies, American Indian Studies, biology, classical studies,
criminal justice studies, performing arts, software engineering, U.S.
Latino/a Studies, women's studies.
Curriculum in Liberal Arts and Sciences
To obtain a bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
curriculum in liberal arts and sciences, an undergraduate student must
earn a minimum of 120 semester credits including a minimum of 32 semester
credits earned in residence at Iowa State University. In addition, the
student must meet general education, communication proficiency, library
proficiency, world language, and advanced credit requirements, as well
as the requirements of a major. Courses taken on a pass/not pass basis
may be counted toward the required total of 120 credits, and may be
used to meet the advanced credit requirement, if appropriate, but may
not be used to satisfy any other graduation requirement. No more than
9 credits of 490 (Independent Study) courses in a single discipline
may be counted toward graduation.
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- New major
Demand has exploded in recent years for individuals trained in bioinformatics and computational biology as huge amounts of data have been created through the advances of genome sequencing. A new B.S. program in bioinformatics and computational biology is now being offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. More
- Globalization
Impressive list of speakers highlights globalization course. More
- Forward Thinking: An Academic Roadmap 2005-2010
Progress Report from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (PDF)
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