Tulane University School of Liberal Arts


The Tulane University School of Liberal Arts is a part of Tulane University and was developed as part of the university’s Renewal Plan following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which in part separated the School of Liberal Arts from the School of Science and Engineering. Brian T. Edwards is the current dean of the School of Liberal Arts, where he is also professor of English, after joining Tulane in 2018. Prior to that, Carole Haber, professor of history at the School, served as dean from 2008 to 2018.
WWW liberalarts.tulane.edu

Scope

The School of Liberal Arts encompasses the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences through 17 departments and 15 interdisciplinary programs as well as the Carroll Gallery, Shakespeare Festival, Summer Lyric Theatre, and the Middle American Research Institute. The School of Liberal Arts is the largest of Tulane's nine schools with the greatest number of enrolled students, faculty members, majors, minors, and graduate programs. The academic departments include Anthropology, Art, Classical Studies, Communication, Economics, English, French and Italian, German and Slavic Studies, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, Theatre and Dance. SLA departments and programs are currently housed in Newcomb Hall, the Woldenberg Art Center, Dixon Hall, and McWilliams Hall located on the Newcomb Quad as well as Dinwiddie, Tilton, Hebert, Jones, and Norman Mayer Halls located on the Academic Quad.

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