Only the educated are free.
Epictetus, Discourses
The College of Arts and Sciences is the repository of the liberal arts tradition that seeks to free the mind from ignorance and empower the individual.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Students in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNCW have access to a
highly qualified, nationally and internationally educated faculty who
seek to engage students in teaching, research and service, offering students
a complete student experience and the discovery of intellectual excitement
inherent to the life of the mind.
Quick Facts
- Professors in the College of Arts and Sciences teach 98% of non-lab courses
- Few campus classrooms accomodate more than 70 students—most are limited to 20 & 40 seats—and modes of instruction go well beyond the lecture to engage students actively in creative activities designed to promote learning, either singly or in groups
- The number of full-time faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences is 458.
- Eighty-five percent of the college's faculty hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree, representing such widely acclaimed institutions, including Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, Harvard University, M.I.T., Northwestern University, Oberlin College, Ohio State University, Queens College, Rutgers University, Swarthmore College, the Juilliard School, the University of Chicago, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, Yale University, and international institutions of higher learning, including Cairo University, Egypt; Kansai University, Japan; Nanjing University, China; University of Athens, Greece; University of Cape Town, South Africa; the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; the University of Toronto, Canada; and the University of Toulouse-LeMirail, France.
