College of Arts & Sciences
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The College prepares students for lives of purpose, service, and leadership by delivering a world-class liberal arts and sciences education rooted in critical thinking and experiential learning.
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CAS Dean's Office 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016 United States
Our graduates proudly go out into the world as critical thinkers and problem solvers.
“Whether it’s ethics, artificial intelligence, space science, performing arts, or biomedical training for medical school, our expert researchers conduct groundbreaking scholarship and complete award-winning publications alongside their students.” — Dean Linda Aldoory
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Browse all College of Arts & Sciences degrees & programs
Please see also all CAS Undergraduate Degrees/Certificates and all Graduate Degrees/Certificates. Most programs also offer minors and certificates.
Arts
- Art History (BA, MA)
- Arts Management (MA)
- Audio Technology (BA, BS, MA)
- Game Design (MA)
- Creative Writing (BA track, MFA)
- Dance (BA)
- Graphic Design (BA)
- Music (BA)
- Photography (BA)
- Studio Art (BA, MFA)
- Theatre & Musical Theatre (BA)
Humanities
- African American & Diaspora Studies (BA)
- American Studies (BA)
- Arabic Studies (BA)
- Arab World Studies (BA)
- Art History (BA, MA)
- Creative Writing (BA track, MFA)
- Ethics, Peace & Human Rights (MA)
- French Studies (BA)
- German Studies (BA)
- History (BA, MA, PhD)
- Israel Studies (minor)
- Jewish Studies (BA)
- LEAD (certficate)
- Linguistics (minor)
- Literature (BA)
- Literature, Culture, & Technology (MA)
- Philosophy (BA, MA)
- Religious Studies (BA)
- Russian Studies (BA)
- Spanish Studies (BA)
- TESOL (MA)
- Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies (BA)
- Writing & Rhetoric (minor)
Sciences & Social Sciences
- Anthropology (BA, MA)
- Audio Technology (BA, BS, MA)
- Behavior, Cognition, & Neuroscience (PhD)
- Biomedical & Environmental
Health Sciences (PhD) - Biology (BS, MA, MS)
- Biotechnology (MS)
- Chemistry (BS, MS)
- Computer Science (BA, BS, MS)
- Data Science (BS, MS, MS Online)
- Digital Technology (certificate)
- Economics (BA, BS, MS, PhD)
- Engineering (Dual Degree)
- Environmental Science (BA, BS, MS)
- Health Promotion (BS, MS)
- Game Design (MA, MFA)
- Global Health & Culture (grad and ugrad certificate
- Mathematics & Statistics (BA, BS, MS)
- Neuroscience (BS, PhD)
- Nutrition Education (MS & certificate online)
- Physics (BA, BS)
- Premed & Postbacc (certificate)
- Psychology (BA, MA, PhD)
- Public Health (BA, BS, MA)
- Science and Policy (certificate)
- Sociology (BA, MA)
- TESOL (MA)
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Achievements
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Inside CAS
Student cast member in costume for Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea performance.
Philosophy professor Zurn teaching class on the Quad.
Graduate student using a JEOL Electron Microscope in the Hall of Science Microscopy Core.
Kelsey Kirsch, biochemistry major and first-author on a paper about the nickel-compound she developed for research on cancer-related abnormal enzyme function.
Assembling 3D-printed components.
Audio technology students engineering a violin track in Control Room A at the Kreeger Studio.
Biology and Environmental Science students entering Virginia cave for research on crustacean evolution in no-light environments.
Health sudents working in DC Ward 7 for a grant project with the DC Department of Health.
AU dance group with student Ali Kirschbaum, moonlighting from her internship with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.
Collaboration in the DMTI Design and Build Lab.