The School of Arts and Sciences is the heart of the University of Richmond’s offerings. You can choose from or combine majors from 22 departments and 10 interdisciplinary programs. In the School of Arts & Sciences, you will learn to integrate your classroom experience with your true interests, your calling.
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Concept 30
Casting a vision for our shared future.
Themed year programming to bring our entire community of learners together in conversations centered around conflict resulting from ethnic, racial, and cultural differences—in Virginia, the United States, and across the globe.
Humanities Fellows Program
An interdisciplinary seminar for sophomore students interested in humanities fields.
Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts
Faculty Expertise
Do you envision college as a place where your professor’s office hours are spent in deep conversation about topics beyond this week’s assignment? Where you can work side-by-side with a faculty member on cutting-edge research that is published in a professional journal?
In A&S, our faculty are experts on the cutting edge of their fields. While they could work in some of the top research institutions in the world, our faculty chose Richmond because they believe in educating tomorrow's leaders and are passionate about mentoring and sharing their knowledge with students.
Faculty Highlights
Nelson ExhibitionArt professor Brittany Nelson's exhibition with Danishta Rivera, Warm Worlds and Otherwise, is currently on view in the Harnett Gallery, University Museums.
Smith ExhibitionArt professor Sable Elyse Smith will present a solo exhibition, BOLO Be on (the) lookout, at JTT Gallery in New York City.
Lundberg Paper AwardPsychology professor Kristjen Lundberg and her collaborators received the award for Best Social Cognition Paper from the International Social Cogntition Network for their paper, “The Bias of Crowds: How Implicit Bias Bridges Personal and Systemic Prejudice.”
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Smith Exhibition
Art professor Sable Elyse Smith's work was included in SITElines.2018: Casa tomada, an exhibition presented by SITE Santa Fe.
Essid ArticleEnglish professor and Writing Center director Joe Essid's article discussing the U.S's reaction to Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon appeared in The Conversation.
Denny ArticleComputer science professor Jory Denny, with Kaiwen Chen, '18, and Hanglin Zhou, '20, published “A Topology-based Path Similarity Metric and Its Application to Sampling-based Motion Planning,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Tilton PodcastRhetoric and communication studies professor Lauren Tilton discussed her project, Photogrammar, with Podcasts@Boatwright.
Boland ArticleLinda Boland, three students (Hannah Small '18, Harper Robinson '18, Aaron Corbin VCU '16 and UR-IIS Post-Bac Fellow '18), and an external collaborator have published a new paper, "A Xenopusoocyte model system to study action potentials" in the Journal of General Physiology.
Pribble GrantPolitical science and international studies professor Jennifer Pribble has been awarded collaborative funding from the University of Costa Rica’s competitive thematic grant program for the project, “Social Policy During Latin America’s Expansionary Phase (2000-2013)."
Parish AwardChemistry professor Carol Parish has received the American Chemical Society's 2019 Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution.
A&S Faculty in the News
The Heart of the University
At Richmond, the School of Arts and Sciences is at the heart of your education, with courses in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences. But choosing an A&S education offers you more than just variety.
It’s the chance to explore a topic you’ve always been curious about, whether that’s Russian, modern dance, or environmental ethics. It’s getting a different perspective on your favorite subject, thinking through concepts and problems in a way you never have before. It’s satisfying your curiosity and love for learning, and then working to translate that into a career path.
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Upcoming Events
- Deconstructing HealthOct208:15 AM - 1:00 PMDeconstructing Health is open to all students interested in exploring clinical and nonclinical healthcare career paths.... Continue reading
- Wyatt T. Walker SymposiumOct222:00 PM - 7:15 PMThe School of Arts & Sciences invites you to join us to kick off our Contested Spaces: Race, Nation, and Conflict... Continue reading
- Math and Computer Science Colloquium: The Effects of Ill Conditioning in Neural NetworkOct224:30 PM - 5:30 PMThe Department of Math and Computer Science welcomes Dr. Zerotti Woods from the University of Georgia.... Continue reading
- GIS DayOct23All DayThe Spatial Analysis Lab celebrates GIS Day with an open lab, software demonstrations, speakers, and their infamous... Continue reading
- Career Chat: Education with Ed PrudenOct242:30 PM - 3:15 PMEd Pruden, a Spider grad and a Spider professor, was first a high school teacher for world and American history and... Continue reading
- Global Environment Speaker Series: Effects of market integration on social structure and land use among the Tsimane' of BoliviaOct244:30 PM - 6:00 PMThe Global Environment Speaker Series welcomes Christopher von Reuden, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at the... Continue reading
- Beyond the Numbers? Keeping Gender on the Agenda of African Regional CourtsOct2512:00 PM - 1:00 PMAs part of Africa Week, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures welcomes Dr. Josephine Jarpa Dawuni,... Continue reading
- Barcelona on Stage: a one-day symposium on contemporary Catalan theatreOct2610:00 AM - 5:30 PMThe Department of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies presents a symposium on contemporary Catalan theatre.... Continue reading
- UR Schola Cantorum and Women's ChoraleOct283:00 PM - 5:00 PMJeffrey Riehl and David Pedersen, conductors... Continue reading
- Math and Computer Science Colloquium: Finding Biblical Quotations in Historical Newspaper CorporaOct294:30 PM - 5:30 PMThe Department of Math and Computer Science welcomes Dr. Lincoln Mullen, from George Washington University's Department... Continue reading
Planning for the Future
Become an educational entrepreneur, taking your vision and passions and turning them into your livelihood. Study a subject you love, go all in on your academic experience. Take that depth of knowledge, add to it your broad exploration, experiential learning through internships and research, and guidance from faculty and career services, and you’ll be ready to chart a course for success with your passion at its core.
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A&S NEXT 2018
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A&S NEXT took place on March 2-3, 2018 at the Richmond Marriott.
The day began with opening remarks from A&S Dean Patrice Rankine.
Rankine introduced the morning keynote speaker, VA Delegate Schuyler VanValkenburg, class of 2004.
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