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Our courses provide the core of the University’s General Education requirements and the first 2 years of coursework for all the other Schools and Colleges. 
CLAS offers a range of minors, including a nationally distinguished and innovative program in human rights. 
Interdisciplinary majors such as cognitive science, double majors, and capstone projects such as independent study or a senior thesis are all encouraged. 
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Distinguished FacultyCLAS Faculty - 01Blair T. Johnson, professor of psychology, is a principal investigator in UConn’s Center for Health, Intervention & Prevention. His research focuses on social influence – how people affect and are affected by others and the processes that can underlie such effects. CLAS Faculty - 02Juliet Lee, associate professor of molecular and cell biology, is the 2008 Blue Skye Foundation Teachers for a New Era Faculty Fellow. She conducts basic research on the regulation of cell movement and is the lead author of a Nature article on the role of calcium in cell movement. CLAS Faculty - 03Ellen Litman, assistant professor of English and associate director of creative writing, was a finalist for the 2008 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Her research interests include 20th-century American literature, Russian literature, translations, ethnic-immigrant literature and experimental fiction. CLAS Faculty - 04Kathleen Segerson, the Philip E. Austin Chair in Economics, also chairs UConn’s Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature & the Environment. A member of the Science Advisory Board of the EPA, she is interested in natural resource use, environmental economics and incentives for voluntary pollution control. CLAS Faculty - 05Roger Travis, associate professor of classics, teaches classical civilization and myth from the perspective of modern culture. Using games like "Halo," "Fable" and "World of Warcraft" to teach the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid, he shows how we are creating a culture that can do for us what these epics did for ancient Greeks and Romans. CLAS Faculty - 06Susanne Yelin, associate professor of physics, holds a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Her primary research involves theoretical quantum optics – the quantum scale interaction of light with atoms, molecules or solid state materials. |
Successful AlumniCLAS Alumni - 01Meghan Burns (’08, B.A., Communication Sciences) is a public relations account coordinator for Adams & Knight Advertising and Public Relations in Avon, Conn. She writes press releases, conducts media outreach, assists in campaign strategy and execution and handles event logistics for clients. CLAS Alumni - 02Jeffrey Steve Ferketic (’08, B.S., Biology and Political Science) is teaching high school math and science in Brownsville, Texas, as one of 50 Amgen Fellows with Teach for America. As a sophomore, he studied abroad and interned in Cape Town, South Africa, where he conducted research on “conservation justice.” CLAS Alumni - 03Nima Gerami (’07, B.A., Political Science and individualized major in International Studies) is a research assistant and editor in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. An Honors student, he studied at the Center for Macroeconomic Studies of Argentina. CLAS Alumni - 04Tristan M. Jones (’07, B.S., Math) currently works for CIGNA in Philadelphia. A Babbidge Scholar and 2007 Big East Scholar-Athlete of the Year, he interned with CIGNA and ING and won UConn’s Donald Kinsman Award for scholarship, leadership and service as an intercollegiate athlete. CLAS Alumni - 05Nikita Lakdawala (’08, B.S., Molecular and Cell Biology and individualized major in Healthcare and Social Inequality) is a medical student at the UConn Medical School. As an undergraduate, she studied abroad in London, volunteered in a clinic in Willimantic, Conn., and gave talks at a soup kitchen. |
