College of Arts and Sciences

Graduates of our College of Arts and Sciences programs are clear thinkers with the versatility to compete and make an touch on in a complex, global surroundings.

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The Higher of Arts and Sciences offers a diverse option of academic programs that enable students to explore their intellectual and creative interests while developing skills that atomic number 82 to rewarding professional opportunities. Our faculty and students share a delivery to advancing the study and practice of the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and the natural and applied sciences. Nosotros fulfill our delivery through didactics, scholarship, creative work, and outreach.

3 distinctive features of the College of Arts and Sciences:

  • Close student/kinesthesia relationships: Our kinesthesia are committed to student success and they embody the Teacher Scholar Model. Students frequently benefit from having professors for multiple courses. Our faculty get to know students well and can craft highly personalized references for career opportunities and graduate schools.
  • Career Educational activity:The close relationship CAS faculty forge with students extends to participation in our students' career instruction. We partner closely with the Amica Center for Career Education through our Mentor Match programs, Arts and Sciences Career Networking Events, and the Explore! Series.
  • Partnership with the College of Business concern: Our Arts and Sciences majors consummate business minors whether in general Business organization Administration or in a functional expanse, such as Marketing or Direction. This partnership gives our graduates an advantage in professional person life, whether they are entering a career in the health sciences, law, public affairs, ecology policy, education, the arts, or … business concern.

For majors in the arts and sciences and for every Bryant student, we teach and reinforce the skills for professional success that employers when surveyed repeatedly demand: effective written and voice communication, disquisitional thinking, ethical reasoning, variety awareness, and information literacy. These habits of listen too promote the ethics of social responsibleness, personal integrity, and borough engagement that are of import to educating the whole person for a full life equally engaged citizens in a complex society.  Many of the contempo graduates who are members of our College Advisory Council, drawn from fields as diverse as actuarial math, emergency medicine, law, and entertainment, provide the strongest examples of this contribution to civic life.

We also believe strongly in experiential learning and co-curricular experiences that heighten what students learn in the classroom.

Some highlights of these activities include students' work in the following endeavors:

  • The Public Speaking Colloquium
  • The Bryant University Statistical Consulting Office
  • The Bryant Literary Review
  • The Federal Reserve Banking concern of Boston'due south College Fed Claiming Team
  • The Summertime Undergraduate Research Fellowship program (funded past RI-INBRE through the National Institutes of Wellness)
  • Global Studies trip to the United nations

Degrees Offered

Undergraduate

  • A Available of Science with majors in Actuarial Mathematics, Applied Economics, Practical Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, or Ecology Scientific discipline
  • A Bachelor of Arts with majors in Psychology, Chinese, Communication, Economics, Global Studies, History, Literary and Cultural Studies, Politics and Law, Sociology, or Castilian

To view the programs offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, select the Arts & Sciences or the Interdisciplinary button on this page.

Mission

The kinesthesia and students of the College of Arts and Sciences share the commitment to advancing the report and practice of the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and the natural and applied sciences. We fulfill our commitment through teaching, scholarship, creative piece of work, and outreach. In faculty and student research, we generate new knowledge. In our teaching, publications, presentations to peers, and engagements with private and public organizations, nosotros disseminate and share our knowledge.

  • The Higher provides a counterbalanced education for every Bryant educatee in the cadre liberal arts areas of the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and both the natural and practical sciences.

  • The College creates and offers avant-garde programs - minors, concentrations, and majors - that reflect the interests of Bryant students every bit well every bit the complexity of the world into which they will graduate. The Higher stresses pedagogical approaches that provide students the opportunity to appoint in exploration of the world, and to call back clearly in contexts marked by doubt.

  • The College offers degree programs designed to set up students for advanced written report, also equally for application in meaningful ways.

  • The Higher fosters adherence to the highest standards of ethical conduct and personal responsibleness.

  • The Higher fosters commitment to social responsibility. The kinesthesia encourage bookish excellence both by serving as part models in the best teacher/scholar tradition, and by sharing with students a delivery to diversity and an engagement in civic and professional service.

  • The College is committed to its kinesthesia and students. The College expects and strongly supports excellence in teaching, service, scholarship, and artistic work

Dean's Advisory Quango

  • Alexander Bartholomew '08, MBA '09, Senior Vice President/Chief Investment Officer at Bartholomew & Company
  • Jose F. Batista '11, J.D., Executive Director at Providence External Review Dominance
  • Courtney (Landi) Cunniff '12, professional and creative writer; Adjunct Professor of English and Creative Writing at Roger Williams Academy
  • Elizabeth Francis, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
  • Linn Freedman, J.D., Chair, Privacy & Cybersecurity Team at Robinson + Cole; Adjunct Professor at Brown University and Roger Williams Law School
  • Cindy Lepore '10, Assistant Vice President at Marsh & McLennan Agency – Northeast
  • Lindsey Lerner '15, music tourism and economical development consultant; project manager for Audio Diplomacy
  • Theresa Porcaro (Navarra) '12, Senior Manager, Marketing Campaigns & Content, Global Entrada Marketing at UiPath
  • Thomas Pagliarini, J.D., Associate at Hinckley Allen
  • Greg Skin, Lead Campus Recruiter at Target
  • John Riendeau, Rhode Island Commerce Corporation Managing director of Business organisation Development
  • Randall "Randy" Rosenbaum, Executive Director at Rhode Island Land Quango on the Arts
  • J.L. "Lynn" Singleton, President of the Providence Performing Arts Heart
  • Christine Smith, Rhode Island Commerce Corporation Managing Managing director Innovation; Executive Director of the Rhode Island Science & Technology Advisory Quango (STAC)
  • Lynn Sweeney, Thou.D., emergency medicine physician, Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital
  • Patricia Teufel, Adjunct Professor of Math at University of Connecticut
  • Scott Forest, M.A., Manager, Environmental Defence force Fund

A Customs OF SCIENTISTS

A Bryant student conducts environmental research with a professor

A Customs OF SCIENTISTS

Majoring in Biology or Environmental Science takes you on a journeying of discovery with kinesthesia who are dedicated teachers, mentors, and researchers. At hand for your apply is lab equipment that other schools typically reserve for grad students, also as an 8,300-square-foot science complex. You can collaborate on original inquiry with a faculty member of your choosing, and even co-publish a paper with your kinesthesia mentor.

TRAINING FOR Circulate CAREERS

Inside the Koffler Center at Bryant University

Grooming FOR Circulate CAREERS

The Communications Complex is home to a state-of-the art digital and multimedia boob tube studio that serves as a pre- and mail service-product training ground. Recently, College Mag ranked Bryant No. three on its list of top ten colleges for broadcast journalism. Larn more well-nigh our Communication program.

Bryant Professor Sharmin Attaran teaches at the Academic Innovation Center

Academic Departments

Our academic departments offer you lot a range of courses of study to choose from and world-class scholars dedicated to education.

Department Listing

A student studies in the library at Bryant University

Courses of Study

Our integrated curriculum includes 26 majors and 35 minors, so you lot tin can create a path that's guided by your interests.

Majors and Minors

Bryant Professor Stanley Baran lectures in class

Graduate Programs

We offer graduate programs within the Higher of Business and the School of Health Sciences.

Graduate Studies