It provides the foundation courses in science, math, languages, and literature for all undergraduate programs across campus.
[2] The college is made up of 39 departments and five professional schools that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields, such as biology, chemistry, economics, history, journalism and mass communication, linguistics, and sociology.
The five professional schools comprise: In addition, many centers, programs, and institutes offer courses for academic credit.
The Letters & Science Honors Program serves more than 1,700 students in the college with an enriched undergraduate curriculum.
Nobel prize-winning physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck completed his A.B.