Dr. Deanna Shields, Dean
College of Liberal Arts
Room 110a Hardway Hall
Phone: 304.367.4161/367-4717
Fax: 304.367.4785
E-Mail: dshields@fairmontstate.edu
Dr. Deanna Shields, Dean
College of Liberal Arts
Room 110a Hardway Hall
Phone: 304.367.4161/367-4717
Fax: 304.367.4785
E-Mail: dshields@fairmontstate.edu
Welcome to the College of Liberal Arts.
Offering major and minor degree programs in Behavioral Science, Language and Literature, and Social Science, our outstanding faculty are here to prepare you for many opportunities. Whether a bachelor’s degree will serve your career goal (law enforcement, social work, teaching, for examples) or you plan to pursue professional (journalism, law, medicine) or graduate-level studies (criminology, English, foreign languages, history), we have the advisors to guide you and the programs to challenge you. For all our programs, a solid foundation in the University’s Liberal Studies courses means you will develop the critical reading, writing, and thinking skills required for success in today’s “global village.”
We’re ready to talk about the opportunities awaiting you. Are you?
We invite you to explore our academic programs by clicking on the links below:
Behavioral Science Programs |
Language and Literature Programs |
Social Science Programs |
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Criminal Justice Undergraduate Program Criminal Justice Graduate Program |
For the fourth consecutive year, three West Virginia high school seniors have been named as recipients of Fairmont State University’s premier academic scholarship, the Charles J. McClain Presidential Scholarship.
The following students have been selected as scholarship winners: Read more
Every spring, French-speaking educators and community members from around the state gather for a day of language immersion. This year Fairmont State University and Dr. Erin Hippolyte, Assistant Professor of French, hosted the French Immersion Day event for the first time.
On April 28, 2012, beginning with café (coffee) and pastries at 10 a.m. in the Education Building conference room, roughly 25people enjoyed speaking French outside the classroom setting with presentations and mix-and-mingle activities until the day came to a close at 3 p.m. Read more
The annual Whetstone Evening celebration will be from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Sunday, May 6, in the second floor student lounge in the Ruth Ann Musick Library on the main campus.
Admission to the event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be provided. Contributors are encouraged to come and read their work, which will be done on a sign-up basis at the event. Read more
