Why a College of Arts & Sciences Education?
Maintaining
high standards in nineteen departments and programs, the College of Arts &
Sciences challenges students to develop critical thinking, aesthetic awareness,
and discriminating judgment, as well as a sense of purpose and a zeal for
continued independent and formal learning.
The College
of Arts & Sciences promotes "learning for a lifetime" across a
variety of disciplines. Although the content and focus of course work may vary
across disciplines, several themes characterize all departments and programs
within Arts & Sciences.
The faculty pays attention to
students as individuals.
- Offerings designed to meet the
differing needs of introductory students and majors
- Many departments employ advanced
students as tutors for beginners
- Students are well-known as
individuals and valued as members of a departmental family
Arts & Sciences alumni have
gone on to lives of extraordinary accomplishments:
- Nobel Prize winner
- Governors
- Members of Congress
- Nationally recognized Coaches,
Scientists, Entrepreneurs, Academics, Writers, Artists
Arts & Sciences students win
honors.
- Washburn
Debate was the squad national champion in 2010 and 2012. The debate team has been ranked annually
by the National Parliamentary Debate Association as one of the top three squads
in the nation for the last several years.
- Math, science, and social science
majors regularly publish or present their scholarship.
- Humanities and performing arts
students frequently receive prestigious awards.
- Year after year, Arts & Sciences
graduates are accepted into prestigious graduate and professional
schools.
- Year after year, Arts & Sciences
graduates go immediately into interesting jobs and begin making important contributions to their
communities.
Arts & Sciences students
inherit the values of the liberal arts.
Students in Arts & Sciences learn
to ask hard questions, such as:
- What is the meaning of experience?
- What is the nature of the
universe?
- What is our place in the world?
Students learn information, but they
also learn how to think, how to ask questions, and how to pursue and evaluate
answers.
Since many students will enter professions unrelated to their
major, the College helps students gain the skills necessary to meet future
challenges.
- Think critically
- Recognize new trends
- Find the key questions in new
contexts
- Recognize the consequences of new
answers
- Adapt to new situations
