The College of Liberal Arts
Interim Dean: Richard L Cole, Ph.D.
210 University Hall • Box 19617 • 817-272-3291 • www.uta.edu/libarts

As a center of learning and scholarship, the College of Liberal Arts and its departments and programs help students achieve an understanding and knowledge of the past, an education of the realities of the present, and a sense of the vision and potential of the future. Our courses of study not only develop habits of mind (such as capabilities in reading, communication, and thinking critically), but also address the meaning of human experience and expression. The study of human meanings leads to a grasp of means and ends and prepares the student for leadership in whatever profession or vocation he or she chooses. The education offered in the College of Liberal Arts is designed to help students live rich, purposeful, and effective lives in a challenging, complex, and increasingly technological environment.
The college promotes these goals in the following ways:

• By helping students develop the tools for analysis, appreciation and communication; for written and oral expression; for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of textual material; for analytic reasoning and scientific method; and for appreciation of aesthetic experience;
• By helping students prepare for professions or careers by offering specialized major programs; and
• By helping students understand and evaluate critically their cultural milieu—the attitudes and ideas that shape institutions and strategies in contemporary society.

Because they deal with the meanings of human experience, the Liberal Arts are the oldest and most central study in higher education, with a past that reaches back to the origins of the university in the Middle Ages. The disciplinary units of the college provide current perspectives on the individual, society, and the cosmos; the various disciplines taken together offer the student an experience of the range of data, issues, and methods that may be integrated in a comprehensive and contemporary vision of the human condition. Through their research and teaching, the faculty of the college seek to prepare students to achieve success in many different professions, to contribute to the community, and to find the most satisfying way of living.

Programs
The College of Liberal Arts, in order to realize these objectives, offers programs of study in 13 academic units.

Art and Art History
Classical Studies
Communication
Criminology and Criminal Justice
English
History
Linguistics
Modern Languages
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Sociology and Anthropology
Theatre Arts

The School of Education, in cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts, offers programs leading to elementary, secondary, and all-level certification. The college also offers an interdisciplinary program leading to an undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary studies. Military Science offers a program that leads to a commission in the U.S. Army. There are also programs of study in the Centers for Post-Soviet and East European Studies, Mexican-American Studies, Southwestern Studies, and Women’s Studies.

Admission to the College of Liberal Arts
Admission is determined by application to the academic unit offering the degree of interest. Individual departments and programs in the College of Liberal Arts may set requirements more specifically and restrictively than those stipulated in the Core Curriculum statement (See Degree Program), and may set additional requirements for admission to the major. Information may be obtained in department and program offices.

The College of Liberal Arts has a modern language requirement. This requirement for the B.A. degree at U.T. Arlington is designed to help students become effective members of the global community. It is not only essential for a broad education, but also provides a basis for practical benefits to students with widely varying and highly specific objectives.

Computer Use and Oral Communication Competencies
Students majoring in Liberal Art disciplines are also required to demonstrate computer use and oral communication competencies. Methods for demonstrating these competencies vary across departments and programs within the College of Liberal Arts and are detailed in the sections of this catalog pertaining to the various majors.

Honors Degree in Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts students who wish to graduate with an Honors Degree in a Liberal Arts discipline must be members of the Honors College in good standing. They must complete the major degree requirements and the requirements of the Honors College which include these Honors courses:

At least twenty-four (24) hours of Honors course work, overall:
At least two Interdisciplinary Seminars (6 hours) or Honors
Special Topics Courses
At least nine (9) hours advanced Honors hours in a Liberal Arts
Discipline:
Research Methods (3 hours) [or the Honors Research Colloquium or equivalent]
Senior Research Thesis/Creative Project (3 hours)
Select (3 hours)
Additional Honors hours (to complete 24 hours) to be chosen
from special Honors sections of University core requirements, other Honors Interdisciplinary Seminars/Special Topics Courses, or Honors Electives.
GPA of 3.0.

The Honors degree requirements are compatible with all departmental and college requirements. See the Honors College section of this catalog for a listing of Honors courses and additional information.

Liberal Arts Major/
Business Administration Minor
It is possible for a student to combine an undergraduate major in a liberal arts discipline with a minor in business administration. Depending upon the student’s major area and interests, and provided prerequisites have been fulfilled, any 18 hours, six of which must be advanced, may be selected from the College of Business Administration.

Liberal Arts majors planning to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree are advised to select a minor (18-24 semester hours) from the following courses: ACCT 2301, 2302, BUSA 2301, 2303, 3306, 3321, MANA 3319, FINA 3313, MARK 3321, and ECON 2305, 2306. In addition, MATH 1315 and 1316 are recommended to fulfill the mathematics requirement.

Completion of the above courses will allow the student, subject to normal graduate admission requirements, to reduce the foundation MBA program requirements. A student not completing all of the courses identified above will be required to enroll in the appropriate MBA foundation courses. All students minoring in business administration who may wish to pursue the MBA degree should consult with an Undergraduate Advisor in the College of Business Administration.

Double Majors
Students in the College of Liberal Arts may obtain a double major by completing all requirements for a degree in any one of Liberal Arts’ disciplines plus the major area requirements in any other discipline in the College of Liberal Arts. Requirements in the second major will fulfill the minor requirement. The diploma and transcript will reflect both majors.

Pass-Fail
Any student majoring in the College of Liberal Arts may, with the permission of an advisor from his/her major department, and of the department or academic unit offering the course, take any course on a pass-fail basis, provided that the course is not required for the student’s degree and provided the student has sophomore standing (30 hours credit). Students seeking teacher certification may not take education courses on a pass-fail basis with the exception of student teaching which is offered only on a pass-fail basis. Junior-senior level military science courses also may not be taken on a pass-fail basis.

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