College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Randy Bouldin, Dean
 

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is one of the largest of the university’s ten colleges. The college includes the academic areas that constitute the university’s liberal arts core.  CLAS provides students with the skills and critical perspectives necessary to become engaged learners who develop the content knowledge and ways of thinking that meet the challenges of a global society.

Drawing upon the intellectual resources of eight departments, the college offers students opportunities in both traditional and innovative learning environments in English and modern languages, Biblical archaeology, communication, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, and history, politics and philosophy. Preparation for discipline related professional pathways in areas such as pre-medicine, pre-law, actuarial science, public relations, environmental science, and secondary education areas including English education, mathematics education, history education, biology education, chemistry education, and physics education as well as a combined mathematics/physics education pathway, are offered across the college curricula.  Graduate programs in archaeology and bio-molecular science are also offered in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In addition, the university’s highly respected and successful pre-med program is housed here as well. 

Off-site learning experiences (i.e., practicums and internships) are required in many courses of study at Lipscomb, some of which are in CLAS. Successful completion of these experiential courses is required for graduation and/or licensure. Students should be aware that many experiential sites require satisfactory documentation of personal identification in the form of driver’s licenses, social security cards, passports, drug screening and background checks. Students should make certain that they are aware of and can meet all documentation requirements well in advance of the timeframe for admission into the respective program and placement into these sites. Failure to provide required documentation for successful entry into these experiential courses may result in failure to complete the desired program of study.