Welcome to the College of Arts & Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest, most comprehensive, and most diverse of the eleven Colleges at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Its twenty-one academic departments and schools, seven centers and institutes, and twelve interdisciplinary programs span the disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and the visual and performing arts.
More than 7,500 undergraduate students have an academic home in one of the College’s sixty undergraduate majors and pre-professional programs. The College also offers more than fifty graduate programs, and is home to 1,400 graduate students. The College’s academic programs are served by roughly 600 faculty members, who also provide the University’s entire undergraduate student body with core instruction in the arts and humanities and the natural and social sciences. Our faculty maintain vibrant programs of research, scholarship, and creative activity, through which they advance the frontiers of knowledge and train undergraduate and graduate students to become independent and engaged scholars.
The College is committed to the long-standing traditions of the liberal arts. It seeks to promote in all its students the values of free and bold intellectual inquiry, vibrant and effective civic engagement, and an understanding of our nation’s and world’s rich cultural heritages.
In the News
- View UT Psychology Graduate Student Andrea Meltzer’s interview on local WBIR news discussing research that she and Professor Jim McNulty published in the July issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Dean's List
Contact Information
College of Arts and Sciences
Office of the Dean
312 Ayres Hall
1403 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-1330
Phone: (865) 974-5332
FAX: (865) 974-4352
