Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
40°45′53″N 73°58′51″W / 40.7648°N 73.9808°W
The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences is the
social sciences, and the humanities
.
In 1941, the
Board of Trustees approved an undergraduate degree program in liberal arts disciplines for students wanting to pursue a non-teaching degree. When East Carolina College was elevated to university status in 1967, the School of Arts and Sciences became the College of Arts and Sciences, the home of the liberal arts. The school is named for Thomas Harriot, a cartographer, historian, and surveyor who took part in Sir Walter Raleigh's second expedition to Virginia
.
Organization
The Departments of the College are:
- Anthropology
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Economics
- English
- Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Geography
- Geology
- History
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Urban and Regional Planning
There are interdisciplinary programs in:
- Asian studies
- African-American studies
- Classical studies
- Coastal and marine studies
- The Great Books
- Institute for Historical and Cultural Research (IHCR)
- International studies
- Medieval and Renaissance studies
- North Carolinian studies
- Religious studies
- Russian studies
- Security studies
- Women's studies