University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences
Summary
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Washington. In autumn 2022, the CAS offered more than 5,400 courses and had an enrollment of 21,913 students, making it the largest division of the university.[2]
The College of Arts and Sciences is considered to have been established in 1861, when the University itself was founded. However, the College was technically incorporated when the Territorial Legislature enacted ‘An Act to Incorporate the University to the Territory of Washington’. Section 9 of the Act stipulated that the university have four departments: literature, science and the arts; law; medicine; and a military department.[3] However, only literature, science and music were available according to territorial newspaper advertisements announcing the opening of the university placed by the Rev. Daniel Bagley in September 1861.[4]
Andrea Woody serves as the dean of the Social Sciences Division.
Natural Sciencesedit
The Natural Sciences Division includes the following departments:[8]
Department of Applied Mathematics
Department of Astronomy
Department of Biology
Department of Chemistry
Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Department of Psychology
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Department of Statistics
Daniel Pollack serves as the dean of the Natural Sciences Division.
Centers and institutesedit
The College contains more than 30 centers and institutes, including the Center for Labor Studies, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Institute for Nuclear Theory, and Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Referencesedit
^Wills, Antoinette; Bolcer, John D. (August 4, 2014). University of Washington. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-467-13182-7. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
^"College of Arts & Sciences Fact Sheet | UW College of Arts & Sciences".
^"Military History at UW". Kinnear Husky Battalion Legacy Foundation. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^"Timeline: The UW celebrates 150 years". University of Washington. Retrieved January 7, 2018.