Welcome to the College of Arts & Sciences
We are the most comprehensive academic unit at the University of Tennessee, spanning twenty-five academic departments and schools as well as seventeen centers and institutes. The College of Arts and Sciences provides general education courses to every undergraduate student on the Knoxville campus. We employ over 600 full-time faculty members and offer more than sixty undergraduate majors and pre-professional programs as well as fifty graduate programs. The college is firmly committed to academic freedom, creative thought, open and rigorous intellectual inquiry, high standards of academic responsibility, and respect for diversity. Our mission is to heighten excellence in three principal areas: teaching, research and creativity, and community service.
In the News
- Lydia Mosi Selected for A 2008 Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Educational Foundation Predoctoral Award
- Microbiology Students Receive a Prestigious and Highly Competitive EID (CDC) Fellowship
- Beauvais Lyons, Ellen McClung Berry Professor of Art is a Guest Master Printmaker at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City
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Events Calendar
- August 28, 2008 - Materials for Nanotechnology:New Chemistry for the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Thin Films
- September 11, 2008 - Chemistry Seminar — “Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis and Vaccine Design”
- November 06, 2008 - Chemistry Seminar — “Exploring (and Maybe Even Understanding) What Happens on Wild Energy Landscapes”
Dean's List
Contact Information
College of Arts & Sciences
Dean's Office
26 Alumni Memorial Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-1320
Main Office: (865) 974-5332
Advising: (865) 974-4481
Fax: (865) 974-4352
Email: webmaster

