College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

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in liberal arts & sciences

The humanities are the heart and soul of any great university and such is the case at Iowa State.

Our music ensembles rely on majors from throughout campus. Our students learn a world language and travel to places they never dream of while they also have the opportunity to perform on stage or hone their creative writing.

Opportunities abound in the communications fields at Iowa State. You can work on the set of a live television program or produce an award-winning daily newspaper. Our students have also been interns across the country - from MTV in New York City to reporting political news in the nation's capital.

Many of the nation's best life sciences programs are right here at Iowa State - programs where you can travel the world on an biology field trip or assist your professors in their labs on cutting-edge research.

At the home of the digital computer you can take advantage of two new majors. Software engineering combines the expertise of our faculty with hands-on experience. And our bioinformatics and computational biology program gives you the knowledge of how to interpret biological data.

At Iowa State you can learn to chase storms or hone your skills as a television meteorologist. Or learn chemistry or physics as an undergraduate lab assistant. You can even spend the summer at a geology field camp immersed in that major. All are possible with Iowa State's physical sciences majors.

Here you can get first-hand experiences with a Presidential Campaign with the Iowa Caucuses. Or spend the summer excavating a bison dig in western Nebraska. Or even studying the great apes in Africa. And even conducting relevant research on media violence. All is possible with the social sciences at Iowa State.