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Think critically. Communicate clearly. Work creatively. With a liberal arts education, you can apply your interdisciplinary skills to solve a range of real-world challenges.
Today, there is a growing need for individuals whose broader knowledge and depth of critical insight can provide creative solutions for the world’s most complex problems. Whatever your interests, a liberal arts education will give you these essential skills to realize your ambitions in the classroom, in a career, and in life.
The Support to Be Your Best
In many ways, the liberal arts is the main foundation of any advanced education. Even as some liberal arts majors focus on job-specific skills, all will prepare you to achieve success in any career you choose. Within any of the 40 diverse majors in Towson’s College of Liberal Arts, you’ll learn how to sharpen your critical thinking, communicate powerfully and persuasively, acquire new learning through research, and collaborate with others on shared projects.
Of course, you’ll have the best help. CLA’s faculty includes many recognized scholars and researchers in their fields. They also are excellent teachers, dedicated to recognizing your individual talents and challenging you to be your best. In short, they are as serious about your future as you are.
“ A liberal arts education in the 21st century prepares students to find success in an ever-changing workplace, attain personal fulfillment, and contribute as engaged citizens to the communities they call home. ”
Opportunities with an Added Edge
As a CLA student, you are encouraged to think independently from the start. You’ll be actively involved in shaping your own learning experience, both in the classroom and through a choice of internships, study abroad/away programs, service learning, independent or interdisciplinary studies, and student organizations. Some CLA students collaborate with professors on research projects, resulting in important findings that have been presented at national conferences and published in scholarly journals.
You also can take advantage of an array of special events hosted by the college to enrich your educational experience, including nationally recognized speakers, film festivals, literary readings, foreign language-based festivals, and community-based programs connected to your studies.
27,000
Liberal arts course enrollments each semester
40
40 majors makes CLA the largest academic division at TU
50%
50% of CLA courses are part of TU’s core curriculum
Areas of Study
- African and African American Studies Minor
- American Studies Minor
- Ancient Mediterranean Studies Minor
- Anthropology Minor
- Asian Studies Minor
- Business, Communication and the Liberal Arts Minor
- Chinese Minor
- Climate, Weather and Society Minor
- Creative Writing Minor
- Deaf Studies Major
- Deaf Studies Minor
- English B.S./Professional Writing M.S.
- English Major
- English Minor
- Family Science Minor
- Family and Human Services B.S./Child Life, Administration and Family Collaboration M.S.
- Family and Human Services Major
- Foreign Languages Major
- French Minor
- Geographic Information Sciences Minor
- Geography Minor
- Geography and Environmental Planning Accelerated B.S./M.A.
- Geography and Environmental Planning Major
- Geography and Land Surveying Major
- Geospatial Technologies Upper Division Certificate
- German Minor
- History Major
- History Minor
- Human Rights and History Minor
- Interdisciplinary Studies Major
- Interdisciplinary Studies Minor
- International Studies Major
- International Studies Minor
- Italian Minor
- Japanese Minor
- Jewish Studies Minor
- Latin American and Latino/a Studies Minor
- Law and American Civilization Major
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies Minor
- Linguistics Minor
- Metropolitan Studies Major
- Museum Studies Minor
- Philosophy Major
- Philosophy Minor
- Political Science Major
- Political Science Minor
- Pre-Law Preparation
- Psychology Major
- Psychology Minor
- Religious Studies Major
- Religious Studies Minor
- Social Sciences Major
- Sociology Minor
- Sociology-Anthropology Major
- Spanish Minor
- Women's and Gender Studies Accelerated B.S./M.S.
- Women's and Gender Studies Major
- Women's and Gender Studies Minor
- Child Life, Administration and Family Collaboration M.S.
- Family-Professional Collaboration Graduate Certificate
- Geography and Environmental Planning M.A.
- Global Humanities M.A.
- Holocaust Education Graduate Certificate
- Homeland Security Management, Integrated M.S.
- Human Resource Development M.S.
- Jewish Communal Service Graduate Certificate
- Jewish Education Graduate Certificate
- Jewish Studies, Education & Communal Leadership M.A.
- Professional Spanish Graduate Certificate
- Professional Studies Graduate Certificate
- Professional Studies M.A.
- Professional Writing M.S.
- Psychology M.A.
- School Psychology C.A.S.
- Security Assessment and Management Graduate Certificate
- Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate
- Women's and Gender Studies M.S.
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[A liberal arts education] opens doors, enabling the mind to go wherever it wants in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. —Willard Dix, for “Forbes”
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